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Speaker 1: Ten oh two in Htown. Good morning, and welcome to

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a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Ross is out in California this week. Jonathan, and I

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assume you're in the producer's room. The screen that has

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a picture of you is not there.

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Speaker 2: So I'm here all right. Good to hear your voice.

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Speaker 1: Hell if I was in fighting in the metisse, I

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can work from the Kingwood studio today. But you don't

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want to spend caughting time with you, Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: In the spray total refresh that computer maybe a word.

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Speaker 1: I don't know even know how to do that. So

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there you come in and in the break.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I hope you guys are in a good mood

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and ladies as well. Uh, it's just me and you today,

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and we've got a couple of things going on during

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the course of the show. We got to shut your

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ball mass up at eleven thirty. That's my I've been

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trying to figure out if I like that more over,

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I'm sorry's more. I think this is my favorite thirty

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minutes of the week is could you just get to

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just tell people how you feel for thirty minutes? And

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we are in a cautious world in which we live in.

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We've gotta be somewhat politically correct. We have to make

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sure we don't offend people. We get to as reasonably

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as we can offend people and tell people to shut

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their bob masses up. And eleven thirty to twelve o'clock

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today will be your golden opportunity to do so, and

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I look forward to that. Also on the radio program today,

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we're gonna visit with Chris Myers of Fox Sports. Chris

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has been with that network forever. It was a ESPN

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a long time ago. And the reason we're having Chris

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on the show is he's going to call the Texans

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and the Titans game Sunday and Fox and he will

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join us from Los Angeles where he lives, coming up

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at about one o'clock today. So we got that going on.

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We got believe it or not at one fifty, and

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we got a lot of you and a lot of me,

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and we invite you to join this radio program to

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buy anything again, nothing Houston related. Last night for sports,

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we got some Cougar basketball tonight against Oakland and it's

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what it is.

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Speaker 2: You got the Rockets.

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Speaker 1: Taking on the worst team in the NBA tonight in

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the Washington Wizards, the worst defense in the NBA. They

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have one victory to their credit, and they've got some

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guys that will score, but they don't defend. And if

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you're going to the Rockets game tonight and you want

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to see a literal track meet of two teams that

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probably wi wone will score one hundred and forty five points,

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one may score one hundred and twenty five. That's going

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to be the Rockets tonight, hopefully against the Washington Wizards.

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So we'll have it for you here to this evening.

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I'll have the call and we'll have our game broadcast

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begin with the Rockets launch pad at six o'clock. Tip

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time will be at seven o'clock inside Totos and the

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Rockets were in the h Town blue uniform or the

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white uniforms with Htown across the front incursive what do

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they call them, the City Editions or whatever they are.

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I'm wearing the gear today. I'm very excited about it.

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It looks good. I'm not a huge fan of artificially

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putting a color into a uniform.

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Speaker 2: But this blue does hit well.

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Speaker 1: It looks chrispy. You see me right now? Yeah, yeah,

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I look, how good do I look right now? Look

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at this nice man? That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I got.

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Speaker 1: You know, you could put me on the runway. You

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probably could if you wanted to look at nook. All right,

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so we got to we got to talk about one

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of our co work here.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: We love Chris Gordy, right of course. I mean he

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is the literal heart and soul of Sports Talk seven ninety.

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He does Rockets period post, occasionally does some Astros prem posts,

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he does a lot of our social stuff. He's working

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with Dan for a few more days, and all he

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does is just live and breathe this radio station. And

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for him, if we didn't have him, we would really

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come to a colossal stop. But he's also actively involved

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in his Lockdown SEC podcast and he does interviews and

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does his little show. And you know that's SEC fan

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generally speaking, is just I mean, they're warped because they

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know they're good, they know that they're going to play

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for national championships in football, but their perception on things

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is just whack sometimes. So yesterday and we just finished

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arguing about this before the show even got on. So

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I know he's I hope he's listening. He's more than

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welking to come in and fight with me if you want.

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So yesterday, I don't know if you saw this, Jonathan,

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he put out a tweet.

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Speaker 2: Is it the one he was talking about the arbitration?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he randomly put a tweet out yesterday at

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twelve noon while the show was going on. I don't

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even realize it, and it says the following, all fired

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college coaches should have to go to an independent arbitrator

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to argue why they deserve their full payout. Like an MLB,

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you present your case for why you deserve it, and

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the arbitrator decides that what percented you get? And then

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we televised it live on ESPN U. Okay, the last

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line was obviously a joke, but the rest of it

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sounded pretty authentic to me. And joining us in studio

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right now is locked on, Gordy.

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Speaker 2: The whole thing's a joke.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then presented as such.

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Speaker 5: You honestly think I think a coach should have to

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go in front of an arbiter and argue for their money.

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Speaker 2: It's a joke. I don't see.

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Speaker 1: You know what, when someone puts jokes, they put quotes

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all over this. They put winking eye emojis, they put

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ha ha emojis.

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Speaker 2: They do all that.

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Speaker 1: You if you are looking for comedy, A, you didn't

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get it, and B if you were trying to get.

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Speaker 2: It, you got wasn't no no no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Sarcasm. So you never would have put this out. First

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of all, when Jimbo got his firing at Texas A

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and M this is, I.

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Speaker 2: Thought it was insane. This is a draft. I'm not

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I've never been pay the man everything he's owed, Like,

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I don't.

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Speaker 5: Know where we all came to that, In a in

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a country where they're starving people on every street corner,

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where we gotta be like, you better pay that coach

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who failed in his job every penny he's owed. I

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don't know why we all do that. I think it's stupid.

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I hope, I hope every coach doesn't get anything.

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Speaker 2: May I read comments?

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Speaker 1: Is it okay? If I read these comments? Okay, let's

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go to them.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: There's a mixed bag on this. First of all, you

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for all the comments on this. It was a joke,

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having some fun take a brief, deep breath, relaxed, Thanks management. Okay,

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some getting.

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Speaker 5: People who don't even follow me going you don't know

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how contracts work. I'm like, oh my god, let's did

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no contract guy was out in full force.

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Speaker 1: Today, Let's go out. James Curtin the third says these

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are polar opposites. Nothing even alike arbitrations. Working on a

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new deal for next year? College football? Is it actively

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signed contract?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Nexts thanks for the education.

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Speaker 1: Joe, something called the Bulldog Report thinks this isn't a

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terrible idea. Then coaches could fail up. So you now

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have a fan of a Georgia Bulldog fan who's on

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your side.

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Speaker 5: Now he's got sixty fourner followers, he might have the

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biggest following of anybody who commented.

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Speaker 1: Well, I commented, and I did, and I did, and

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I did quite well. Actually, Gilly's lover chimes in, or

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maybe or I'm just spitballing here. College is don't make

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outrageous contract offers. I like you, but he's making he's

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making my point. Houston Hawkey says, not everything's the negotiation

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contracts today being a major starting point for this, it's.

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Speaker 5: The only count the coaches contracts are the only contracts

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in this country that like everyone goes to bat for

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and go like, it's the only position where you get

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a contract fulfilled for doing a crappy job. Any other

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deal in this country, you sign a contract and you

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do a crappy job, it's either negated, it's you know,

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it's walked down.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's wiped away. That's stuff.

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Speaker 1: But that's the industry in which they live in.

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Speaker 2: But why do we accept this one is because everybody.

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Speaker 1: Because it's it's just like stadium deals in sports. Why

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does san Antonio get all this public money? Because if

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San Antonio doesn't do it, and their city is going

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to do it. There are certain things in life that,

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to your definition, are not fair, and one of them

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is college coaches get guaranteed contracts because if you're a

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college and you if you have a guy that you

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want to come coach your team, like obviously LSU wanted

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Brian Kelly, they have to guarantee a contract. And if

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you don't guarantee a contract, you don't get Brian Kelly.

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Speaker 5: But that's but that's where I fall on the anytime

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we end an argument with well, that's just how it's

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Speaker 2: I think it's stupid.

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Speaker 5: I think times change, we evolve as a society.

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Speaker 2: Things change, times change, but it won't be that this

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needs to change.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's continue on the replies At a very

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reputable Twitter account, DV two CFB just says Jesus. Sunset

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Hoop says, this show's a pretty egregious lack of knowledge

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or what a contract.

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Speaker 2: Is, right, I need to take more contract classes, I

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guess at.

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Speaker 1: Fellow human fascinating how you know full well how stupid

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this is, but you still posted it?

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Speaker 2: Or maybe hear me out this could be a joke.

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Who knows?

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Speaker 1: At so fast fifteen says the f do you care

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if someone gets paid or not?

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Speaker 2: He's angry.

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Speaker 1: So I reposted your tweet with a common of my own.

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You offer me a contract, I signed it, case closed

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in five seconds. That's how it works. Even at LSU.

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I got eighty six thousand views. Thank you very much, Gordy.

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I got seven comments, twenty three retweets, and seven hundred

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and seventy nine likes. You guys, so you could suck it, Gordy,

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your take horrific, awful, and you're intent to hear it.

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Remember only a well professionals like myself to be humorous.

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Speaker 5: I jumped on that to day Tom Herman left for Texas.

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Speaker 2: I should have been like, you've eateed. You owe him

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every penny out the door.

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Speaker 5: You better make sure you wrote every check and signed

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it that he's owed every dime on the way out

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the door.

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Speaker 2: You ate you better pay every penny for that man. Like, no,

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they bought up the Texas bought out the contract.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, like, I just think it's so ridiculous

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that we're all like cow twing for these Okay, some

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as bad code used to get every penny owed because

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they failed at their job. So you failed, you sucked

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so bad somebody came to you and said we're willing

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to pay you to go away.

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Speaker 1: Because you suck so you as a college football commissioner,

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because there is one now will now say the contracts

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a long after to be guaranteed, and.

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Speaker 5: Once you get that pat I don't think fully guaranteed,

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but I do think we need to get to a

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world where they're more incentive laden, where you're rewarded for success,

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where you get an extra two million dollars if you

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reach the conference championship get Why not? I think that's

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way more reward success. How much does I have to

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look at his contract? But how much does Willie Fritz

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get if he gets to the Big twelve TI?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's getting one hundred thousand dollars

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bonus I think for two different things so far this year.

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Speaker 5: Right, I would I would escalate that to the f degree.

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I would say he gets five million if he gets

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to the Big twelve championship. How much would that motivate

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is in today's college football world, and it's been that way, honestly, Gordy,

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for since the beginning of contracts.

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Speaker 5: And that's where I say we need to stop going

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to well, it's always been this way.

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Speaker 2: Things change, times changed.

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Speaker 5: We need to put a full stop and go, let's

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rethink how we do this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, then who wants to me the first gool

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now to do well, that's still let me know, let

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me know, let me know what school that is, and

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I will be I will be happy to say bravo

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to you Penn State for not offering X y Z

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coach a guaranteed deal.

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Speaker 5: You can only three years of his five years guarantee,

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fully guaranteed. It's that we like. The minute a coach. Okay,

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you sign a coach to a six year deal for

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X amount of million and he has a great year,

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what's the first thing the agent does, Oh, well, my

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guy deserves a raise. Well no, no, no, you're literally earning

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your deal. We paid you this money with the thought

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that you would be a good coach. But the minute

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you have success, it's immediately he needs a raise. Well,

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why do you get a raise? You did what you

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Speaker 1: To do, correct, So that's that year you're giving raises

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because you're gonna make sure that no one goes and

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get you because you can get out of your contract.

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this year.

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Speaker 5: But I think that's where this whole thing is built

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out of fear. The eighties are scared out of their wits.

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Oh my god, I can't lose this guy. I mean

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for the longest, they used to tell them, you know,

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you have three years left on your deal. Well, my

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guy can't recruit, recruit, he can't go sit in a

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recruits living room and go. I want to bring you

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in for the next four years because I might not

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even be here four years. I only have three years

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left my deal, so he needs another year in his contract.

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Speaker 1: This is the passion of Glorierre looking. It's just a

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never ending such a never ending cycle of defending it.

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LSU Athletic director. It's nothing to do with Lsu.

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Speaker 5: This is idiot athletic director's Kyle telling to the UH.

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I don't know, hell, uh agent.

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Speaker 1: There's a group of one hundred and twenty five of

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them that run Division one football schools that are all

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offering the guaranteed deals. They just are Gordy, I need

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you go back to your life. I just want to

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thank you for allowing me to get the number of

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views and likes.

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Speaker 2: And unable to read sarcasm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh no, no, no, there was no sarcasm. What's

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Speaker 5: You really think I think they should go to an

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arborter to argue how much money they should be out.

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Speaker 1: Again you I saw no asterisks. I saw no capital

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letter followed by lowercase letter. I saw no hajas, I

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saw no emojis. I saw pure fire.

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Speaker 7: L s U.

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Speaker 1: I love my school they're figuring.

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Speaker 2: It's not mine.

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Speaker 5: You know what you should have done? Put the tweet

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out there. Then it's not about him, it's about it

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wasn't funny. It's not funny.

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Speaker 2: Coaches.

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Speaker 1: Ah, let's start calling a new seven called does Gordy

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take an out this week? You take an out other week?

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Speaker 2: Start doing this for sports talk radio.

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Speaker 5: I'm all for to live on the air that negotiates

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his next deal.

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Speaker 2: How much should that make?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: And and my myke Dennis should be guaranteed for sure.

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All right, that's why we love you. Locked in NCC.

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What are you gonna locked then?

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Speaker 2: SEC?

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Speaker 1: That's even go look at you.

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Speaker 5: We had a great conversation with David Nuno yesterday for

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who textaggs David?

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Speaker 1: It's a big game. You get get a bit of

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Lucian is too big?

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Speaker 8: Now?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get a U? What's the guy's name?

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Chip Chip Davis, Chip Brown, Chip Brown of Texas. What

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you gonna, Jeff catch him?

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Speaker 2: If you will tomorrow? I think we got Mike Griffith

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from dog Nation, one.

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Speaker 1: Big one, Mike Griffin, dog Nation. Gime, he's a real

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joll every week. Excuse me, I'm a Mike Griffin and Mike.

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You sound like you're a big a journalist. What do

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you work for?

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Speaker 5: I work for dog Nation Hel's y'all have a bunch

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of bros, which y'all are all the Texas was I

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worked for Hookemhorns Dot. Y'all are all frauds, gigambags dot.

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I'm a serious journalist for koogsrule dot com. Dog Let

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me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I wasn't thinking to myself, Man,

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if I could really do a radio show online for

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dog nation dot com, that'll be my career. Pedacle Thomas

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in the Voice of the Houston Rockets are doing a

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radio show on Seminary.

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Speaker 5: I want to work for dog nation dot com. That

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Thomas from Auburn Tiger rips your heart out dot com.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna beat Auburn this weekend. In college basketball, thank

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you for ten sixteen. It is about Thomas Show with

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Ross shut joebumass up at eleven thirty, Chris Meyers Fox

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Sports at one o'clock Here on seven ninety, it is

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about Thomas Show at Ross Ross Who's in CALLI this week?

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Speaker 2: So it's just me.

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Speaker 1: Teasing Gordy.

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Speaker 2: We love him.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Speaking of college football. So, and I've told you

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in the audience always changing. Just let you know I've

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got a house full of mixed college football fans. I'm

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a University Houston fan. My wife loves about five different teams,

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so it doesn't even count. She loves U of H,

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she loves Texas Tech, she loves Notre Dame. I mean,

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it's a hot mess in the time of someone comes

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to her. My three kids, my daughter could give two

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craps about college football. My oldest went to Texas Tech

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and he is beyond excited about his Red Raiders. And

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my middle son, Peyton, who's a recent graduate of Texas

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A and M. So now that you all know that.

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So last night, before we went to dinner, we wanted

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to watch the college football rankings, and there wasn't any

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change in the top four, meaning that A and M,

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even though they did beat Missouri in Colombia and played,

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frankly a lot better than when Indiana did to beat

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Penn State on that last second play and that touchdown

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that Gus Johnson lost his ability to speak for a while,

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that A and M did not jump over Indiana, and

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that Indiana's number three Ohio State's number one A and

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M is three and Alabama is four. So and I

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was telling this to my middle son, Paint. I said, look,

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these things are gonna be fluid, They're going to change.

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Somebody could lose, there could be some shuffling, whatever the

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case may be. If A and M finishes the table

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and wins the SEC Championship, or at least goes and

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beats Texas and they've got South Carolin this week, that's

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gonna be no big deal to them. But point being

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is that they've got a really good shot of maybe

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getting in that top spot. But unless they just have

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a seismic fall in the next couple of weeks, they're

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gonna be probably a top four, which means they're gonna

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have a first round by And I thought to myself, grandiose,

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big picture on this. You know, we're always trying to

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add things to sports, whether we're trying to add more

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games in the NFL, whether we're looking to diversify the

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schedules in baseball and back basketball, in season tournaments, playoffs.

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There's talk of maybe the instable A tournament adding another

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sixteen team bracket. To all this, there's a variety of

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little things that always get brought up that you go, hey,

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I wish things were just the way they used to be.

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I got to tell you something, Gang, I liked the

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four team college football tournament because it really really made

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you lose your mind if your team was on the

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outside looking in and there were no guaranteed spots. You

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didn't have to you didn't have to win a conference,

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or you weren't guaranteed a spot because you won a conference,

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you would you know, that was four teams and that

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was really good because we didn't. We got a real

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better look at a tournament, you know, a pair of

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national semifinals in a one championship game. I like this

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twelve team college football tournament. I don't think I would

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like it if it got to sixteen. Why not, because

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sometimes if you see, if you get too much of something,

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you wind up not enjoying it as much. Like for instance,

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and I hate to go food on you here, but

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America sandwich is the McRib of course, right. The mcgrib

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comes out like twice a year, and I love it.

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If the mcgrib was available to me seven days a week,

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what I have nearly the passion for it?

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Speaker 2: Probably not okay? If you you know, if you get

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to eat.

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Speaker 1: Your favorite if you get defaheatas every single day and

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that third or fourth day, you're kind of like, yeah,

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heat is no big deal. I love this twelve team

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tournament because it gives me an opportunity to see a

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good combination of at large teams, a group of six

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qualifier and conference champions. And they fixed it up this

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year that you are not guaranteed a top four spot.

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but you are not guaranteed one, two, three, or four.

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Looking at the bracket on ESPN as I was watching this,

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I love that there are games on home sites the

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first week. Now they go once they get to the quarterfinals,

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they do them in bowl locations, which makes me kind

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of sad for those people that are the you know,

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the top four seeds that don't have to play the

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first week. They don't get rewarded by playing a home game.

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I know they'll never change this, but I would love

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to see them go to the home sites for the

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quarterfinal round. So if A and M finishes in the

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top four, that you, as Aggie fans, get to go

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see your Aggis play in a national quarterfinal. Game at

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Kyle Field. You kicked your Not only do you get

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the reward of being one of the top teams in

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the country and getting a first round by but you

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get to actually put some people in your own seats

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and have a sizeable home field advantage. Now, I know

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this was never going to happen. In fact, I think

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probably the opposite's going to happen. I think the opposite

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is going to happen. That's we're gonna eventually see the

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home fields in the first four round of the first

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round go away, because somebody's going to write a check

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of these TV networks into this college football playoff. That's

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going to be more than anybody could ever dreamed. But

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to be on a home site the first weekend, imagine

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how cool it would be if it was the second weekend,

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where you could have a home game at Indiana, you

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could have a home game at Kyle Field, you could

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have a game at Ohio State. Now that may even

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give them an even a more sizable advantage of even

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more so than they're good as they are. But college

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football has pageantry that, frankly, no other sport has when

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it comes to the game day experience. I don't know

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if you guys do this or not, other ladies do

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this either. But like on a Rando Saturday, if my

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Cougars aren't playing or they play at night, I turn

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on the ESPN. You know, I watched a little bit

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of the picks contest. I like the Pat McAfee kicking thing.

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That's kind of cool. But you put a game on

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at eleven o'clock and you go on ESPN, ESPN two, ESPN,

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u FS one, Fox, ABC, NBC. You can watch seven

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or eight games and in most times, not all of them.

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Most of the time you got eighty five thousand people

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in every one of these stadiums you have basically at

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eleven o'clock on a Randoh day on a Saturday. And

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not the most populous cities in America, you know, like

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if in the NFL it knew all the sames are full,

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but those are like big cities. That's Cleveland and New York,

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and that's Detroit, and that's Tampa, and it's Orlando and

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not Ortlanto, but it's Atlanta. You put on eleven o'clock game,

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and you have stadiums in Columbia, South Carolina, Starkville, Mississippi, Waco, Texas, Norman, Oklahoma,

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and Madison, Wisconsin, and they're all jam packed.

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Speaker 2: Now, now, are all those teams excellent?

477
00:22:01,799 --> 00:22:01,839
Speaker 1: No?

478
00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:04,759
Speaker 2: Are all those teams fighting for national championship?

479
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 9: No?

480
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,519
Speaker 1: But damn the pageantry of college football is spectacular. And

481
00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:12,279
then you put the games on in two thirty they're

482
00:22:12,319 --> 00:22:14,720
really really good games. And you multiply that times two

483
00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:18,160
or three. You got thirty stadiums with fifty to seventy

484
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,599
to one hundred thousand people. I mean, Tennessee has been

485
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,880
good but not great the last you know how many

486
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,000
years they're you know, they got one hundred and six

487
00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:32,160
thousand people in Knoxville, Tennessee. You watch a game in

488
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,079
Oxford with all miss we got eighty thousand people. Whatever

489
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,640
that cdium is, I mean, this is it's it. It's

490
00:22:38,759 --> 00:22:41,000
magical to me. And there's very few things left in

491
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,920
my life in sports that are magical. Because it's easier

492
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,319
to be a sports fan. That's cynical. We're just talking

493
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,079
about high praying contracts of guys. But I would love

494
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,519
for college football to give the home field to the

495
00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:59,240
teams that get the buys and then off weeks they're

496
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,839
definitely buys. But I think we're never gonna get that happen.

497
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,319
And I'm gonna tell you this and to wrap up

498
00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:11,680
this brief conversation about it, Please tournament, please, nc DOUBLEA please,

499
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,000
College Football Playoff please, Conference commissioners.

500
00:23:14,759 --> 00:23:15,599
Speaker 2: Keep it at twelve.

501
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,079
Speaker 1: Sixteen just doesn't make it sound nearly as sexy. It's

502
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,440
more of an invitational than it is a man, you

503
00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:29,039
earned it. Sixteen teams. I can buy into four weeks

504
00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:31,160
of great college football? Do I want to buy in

505
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,920
another full week of it? Do I want double buys?

506
00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 2: Do I want? I mean?

507
00:23:35,799 --> 00:23:35,839
Speaker 8: No?

508
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 1: Thanks? Keep it at twelve. The bracket looks great. Let

509
00:23:41,759 --> 00:23:43,920
those folks have first round games in our home field.

510
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,519
I'd love to give the second teams though, those other

511
00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:49,279
four teams in the buy home field. But if it

512
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,400
ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm definitely afraid we're

513
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,200
gonna lose some of the charm if the NCAA College

514
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,839
Football Playoff goes to sixteen teams seven one three two

515
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,559
one two five seven ninety seven to one three two,

516
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,400
one two five seven ninety Do you find the pageantry

517
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,400
of the college Football Playoff as intriguing as I do?

518
00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:11,000
I kind of do, because I've got members of my

519
00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:13,759
family that are sitting in front of the television on

520
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,880
Tuesday night at six o'clock at ESPN that can't wait

521
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,039
to find out where their team is bracketed. Now, maybe

522
00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:21,720
if your team is not in those brackets, you don't

523
00:24:21,759 --> 00:24:23,359
particularly care. If you're no, what's you fan, you're like, Man,

524
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,480
I don't care. If you're a fan of I don't know, Marshall,

525
00:24:27,519 --> 00:24:30,559
you don't care. Hell, if you're a fan of Baylor,

526
00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:32,279
you don't care. But man, if you're a Texas tech

527
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,440
Guide this week, you're a and m And by the way,

528
00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:37,799
Texas is now in at number ten that had one

529
00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:39,920
of the that had the last at large spot. This

530
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,279
is good stuff. And for all the negativity the college

531
00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:46,599
football has given us with portals and nil and paying

532
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,880
of salaries, the bracket was in front of me last

533
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:54,160
night and I liked it. That's why I'm gonna watch Saturday.

534
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,279
So I'm gonna watch every single Saturday. Because I didn't

535
00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:00,519
worry about NIL. I worried about the bracket. The bracket

536
00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:03,119
showed met I've got some teams and my family cares

537
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,519
about that are thinking about playing for a national championship.

538
00:25:05,839 --> 00:25:08,000
Ten thirty one, the Matt Thomas, Shold Ross seven one

539
00:25:08,079 --> 00:25:11,000
three two one two five seven NINTI. Jo A Spott

540
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,839
it was a guest on Astroline last night.

541
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 2: What did he have to say?

542
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: We're on through a few of those clips next here

543
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,599
on seven ninety all right, we have Astroline. It's the

544
00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:22,799
Astros off season radio show. We do it once a

545
00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,759
week here on SEVENINTI. The various broadcasters for the Astros

546
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,119
host that, and it's usually it's on nights where the

547
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,440
Rockets aren't playing, so last night it was uh, their

548
00:25:34,559 --> 00:25:37,160
knight to do it. We have the Rockets against the

549
00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:39,599
Washington Wizards this evening. We'll have the coverage pre being

550
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,319
the six o'clock here on seven nine, and I'll have

551
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,119
the call at seven all right, So, uh, jo A

552
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,759
Spotted was the guest, and I believe Todd Kallis was

553
00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:50,160
the host at least for this segment. And it was

554
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,880
a wide ranging interview. And I don't think we're gonna

555
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,720
get any breaking news out of this, but sometimes you

556
00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:59,319
just want to give out what the person has to

557
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,400
say as compared us paraphrasing. So I'm going to play

558
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,720
some soundbites for you of joe A. Spotta and you

559
00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:06,519
can kind of comment if you still choose, because I

560
00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:08,480
know we've got a large Astro fan base that listen to.

561
00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 2: This radio show.

562
00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: So to join us on anything, whether it's college football,

563
00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,319
the Rockets tonight, Texans and Titans getting ready to get

564
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,960
after it on Sunday, or these comments from Joe spot

565
00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:21,720
A seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

566
00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:25,119
Here is Joe first of all, on planning with coaches

567
00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:27,559
and players for twenty twenty six.

568
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 7: How can we make sure that we could be healthier,

569
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,200
How can we keep guys on the field, How can

570
00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:39,359
we you know, put a roster roster together where we

571
00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:42,880
have all the pieces needed for one sixty two.

572
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,519
Speaker 2: So we learn a lot.

573
00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:47,559
Speaker 7: We have some really good conversation and looking forward for

574
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,960
the future. I think that sitting at home watching some

575
00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:55,519
of these postseason games, you know, it makes you appreciate

576
00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,319
how good we've been as an organization and it create

577
00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:04,400
create this fire, this this ship on your shoulder for

578
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,519
us going into supreme training and want us to get

579
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:09,000
back to the postseas and our players. I'll tell you

580
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,559
this my conversation with the players. We do not like

581
00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:13,519
the fact that we're sitting at home watching this from

582
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,319
from our couches. It's it's it's a very sour taste,

583
00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:20,000
and it's one that we we're going to use to

584
00:27:20,079 --> 00:27:21,759
motivate ourselves to go to SPREEN training.

585
00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: Ready to go.

586
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,839
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good to me. I'm all for that.

587
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,240
I think you would be as well.

588
00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 10: Uh.

589
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: One of the things that was talked about, obviously, one

590
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,640
of the initial changes was firing of the lead trainer

591
00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:36,359
and some changes in his coaching staff. And here's Joe

592
00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:37,359
on those changes.

593
00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 2: Have some really difficult conversation with some great coaches.

594
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:41,039
Speaker 11: Uh.

595
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 7: Uh they're really good people, guys who helped us, uh

596
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,599
bring bring championships to our organization. But for us to

597
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,799
keep this going, uh, we thought that the change needs

598
00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:54,680
to be made and and and we did. And uh,

599
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,279
you know, our roster is changing. We have to make

600
00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:02,279
sure that we bring that at dynamic offense, our identity back.

601
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: To who we were.

602
00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:07,039
Speaker 7: And so we were moving forward bringing some guys in

603
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,799
that I know can bring our offense back. We could

604
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,000
have some change our message and how we address some

605
00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:15,200
of the offensive issues that we had.

606
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited. We've having some conversation with some coaches.

607
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,519
Speaker 7: So right now it's I think we are putting ourselves

608
00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:26,079
in a position where we can get our offense going

609
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,599
and bring our identity back, which I think is very important.

610
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: Right, So it sounds like to me, and I'm not

611
00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:35,880
going to try to reinvent what he said, but maybe

612
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,279
the hitting coaches a different set of eyes will help

613
00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:44,599
some guys that were slumping at times last year. Yeah,

614
00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:47,880
I don't have a problem with that. Again, Ross and

615
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,440
I have been pretty consistent about this. The reason why

616
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,279
the Asters to not make the playoffs last year was

617
00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:55,240
because the hitting coaches were napped. In fact, I think

618
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,960
the guys that got let go of all gotten jobs.

619
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:02,240
So obviously the reputations are pretty good. But if you

620
00:29:02,519 --> 00:29:05,720
just wanted to say, and I think the Astros did this,

621
00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:09,440
we need to change things up, we need to freshen

622
00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:12,160
things up. I can live with that.

623
00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: Now.

624
00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: The only negative is is that are they going to

625
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,000
be able to ultimately get the type of staff they

626
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:25,000
want from pitching coaches to bullpen people, to outfield coaches

627
00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:27,759
to trainers to whatever they're going to do. In terms

628
00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:31,000
of when the staff is finally put together, can you

629
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:34,720
get who you really want when your general manager and

630
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,240
your manager are on the lame duck final year of

631
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:44,279
their contracts, it'd be hard for me. Now, they did

632
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,880
go get a hit the hitting coach away from the

633
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,519
San Diego Padres, but he's not gonna be the only

634
00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,200
guy by himself. It's gonna be another hitting coach coming in. Apparently.

635
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,200
I'm telling you if I'm a young up and coming

636
00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,440
or even a middle aged hitting coach or pitching coach

637
00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:03,920
or whatever, and I am trying to, you know, take

638
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,440
my abilities to the next level and build a foundation somewhere.

639
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,880
I don't know if the first place I'm going is

640
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,519
to a place where my manager may be going over

641
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:16,960
the year. Now, sometimes hitting coaches survive and position coaches

642
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:20,359
survive managerial changes, but more times than not they don't

643
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,000
because if you go to hire a new manager, what

644
00:30:23,079 --> 00:30:23,400
do they want?

645
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,519
Speaker 2: What the first thing I want to do? They want

646
00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:25,720
to bring their own coaches in.

647
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: More on a spot him, he was talking about some

648
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,839
things that need to happen, and did we play number

649
00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:40,279
four already, Jonathan? And we we just did that, we already. Okay,

650
00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:43,400
here is a Joe on needing to get back to

651
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:44,720
what they should be.

652
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,319
Speaker 7: Best at, and that's smacking the ball around we are

653
00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:50,400
a good offense where we control the pace of the game. Well,

654
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,319
what I mean with that is, you know an offense

655
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:56,559
that is is long, it's in nine hole hitters working

656
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,519
working at the same pace with the same objective.

657
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:01,839
Speaker 2: We have to get on base more. We have to

658
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,400
make our opponents work more. We got to know. We've

659
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,240
got to be very specific to our players.

660
00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 7: There's strength and weaknesses, what we do best, How we

661
00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:15,519
can work together to make sure that when we struggle,

662
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,319
it's it's for a short term. Dynamic offense is one

663
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,599
that beats you from many different ways. Not only we slug,

664
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,480
but we could went on base, we speed taking extra base.

665
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:31,839
When when we've had that offense at dynamic offense, that

666
00:31:32,079 --> 00:31:35,279
moult that everyone is working together is very is one

667
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,759
very difficult to beat.

668
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: All right, So now it's time to get offensive. It's

669
00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:45,240
time to get the bats going. A few more things

670
00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:45,839
from Joe.

671
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:48,119
Speaker 12: Uh.

672
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: This is a spot on number eight for those of

673
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,279
you playing at home. I am Jonathan Uh. He wants

674
00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:57,240
to get some support from Hunter Brown, meaning I would

675
00:31:57,279 --> 00:31:59,319
assume that he wants that back end of the bullpen

676
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,599
to be as as ever.

677
00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 7: When we're talking about our adding to our depth is

678
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,400
so we could protect him so he could be our

679
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,640
ace for years to come. He has, he has pitched

680
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,759
in big gains for us the last couple of years,

681
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,079
and we got to make sure that we protect him

682
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,279
and and give him the pieces that he needs so

683
00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:20,400
we can continue, you know, have him is in top

684
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,559
of our rotation for years to come. And I think

685
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:25,240
that's going to be very important for us when we

686
00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:26,799
look at our roster and we're trying to put this

687
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,839
roster together, that we have enough arms in the back end,

688
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,759
in the middle, relieve back end of our bullpen. So

689
00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:35,279
we feel good about protecting Hunter Brown, protecting all our pitching,

690
00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:38,000
and we could handle the ball to you know, any

691
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,480
any any of our guys so we can close some

692
00:32:40,599 --> 00:32:41,039
games out.

693
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: Well, if Josh haters healthy, I don't think that's gonna

694
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,960
be an issue. I think, uh, you know, Bryan and

695
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,319
Brady did an excellent job being the evening guy. I

696
00:32:53,359 --> 00:32:56,039
don't think he necessarily embraced the closer's role to probably

697
00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:59,839
what your expectations were for that matter of the organizations.

698
00:32:59,839 --> 00:33:03,359
But I'm not nearly as worried about seven eight nine

699
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,640
as perhaps Joe is. But you know what, what I

700
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,680
think is what he was intimating was that if Hunter

701
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:14,279
Brown gives you six quality innings, he should leave the

702
00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:17,799
game a feeling good about himself, and b he should

703
00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:20,640
win that game. And it always worked that way. But yeah,

704
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,519
to me, and I would think that ninety nine point

705
00:33:24,599 --> 00:33:26,240
nine percent of you would agree with me on this.

706
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:30,480
This is about how this team's going to get some

707
00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:32,599
starting pitching before the start of the twenty twenty six

708
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:38,759
season and a fine line the Astros have to walk

709
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,640
when it comes to free agent pitching and trying to

710
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,000
secure their own. We'll talk more about that coming back.

711
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,000
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

712
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,880
one three two one two five seven niney. We are

713
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,000
waiting for the Texans hit the practice field, by the way,

714
00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:55,799
and as soon as we do, we will find out

715
00:33:55,839 --> 00:33:59,039
whether or not c. J. Stroud is out there. If

716
00:33:59,079 --> 00:34:01,440
he's not out there today, he doesn't need to be

717
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,079
playing Sunday against Tennessee. He needs to get his mind

718
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,679
and more importantly, his body right for Buffalo a week

719
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,880
from tomorrow. So that's really the only drama. As far

720
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,639
as breaking down the Tech Texans Titans, I'm not doing

721
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,800
much of that. The Titans suck that's your breakdown for

722
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,280
you other teams. Other people are going to you know,

723
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,480
going to the All twenty two tape. They ask Wrew

724
00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:24,960
that Titans suck, Texan should win the football game. The

725
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:28,880
issue is going to be are you getting your lineman back?

726
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,039
Are you getting Jalen Petrie back? Are you getting CJ.

727
00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:34,760
Stroud on the football field? That's the most important thing.

728
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,199
All right, I'm about to tell our video department here

729
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:41,599
to shut there by mass up. I have been waiting

730
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,079
to see you for fifty minutes. I don't even know

731
00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:45,440
what you look like today, Jonathan. That's going on around here.

732
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,519
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. We're figured it out, all right.

733
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,519
Speaker 1: Good, I'm doing the show from home tomorrow. I'm gonna

734
00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:54,400
see you anyway. Ten fifty two on Sports Talk seven

735
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,800
nine eight is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross's

736
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,960
in California in Long Beach, hanging out with his buddy

737
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,320
and I look forward to getting him back in next Monday.

738
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,559
Coming up later today, we got to shut your ball

739
00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:06,599
mass up. At eleven thirty and at one o'clock, Chris

740
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,320
Meyers from Fox sportsby with us here on the radio program.

741
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,000
All right, so, and I don't mean to get into

742
00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:14,840
a deep dive on baseball. But frankly again, Rockets playing

743
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,679
the Wizards tonight, it's not gonna move the needle. Texans

744
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,840
playing the Titans doesn't move the needle except to figure

745
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,519
out whether or not you c J. Stroud's gonna be

746
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:24,199
out there or not, or Jalen Petrie or Titus Howard.

747
00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:26,360
And you know, if those three guys aren't on the field,

748
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,039
they should beat the Tennessee Titans. I mean period of

749
00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:32,920
his story. This isn't even a could you imagine going

750
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,880
into it, you know, in a cuss and discuss about

751
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,280
the Texans Titans breakdown?

752
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 2: Who the why? Now? You don't care. You want your

753
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,519
guys to win. You don't care how they do it.

754
00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 3: You don't.

755
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: I mean Nico Collins should get one hundred and twenty

756
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,719
five yards in receiving money, meals should throw for two

757
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,000
sixty five? Uh you know what he marks you get

758
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,039
to the end zone. I mean in will Anderson all

759
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:01,000
three sacks. There's your breakdown. Titans suck.

760
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: The Titans? Was this game?

761
00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: So the Titans beat the Texans. A Sunday we close

762
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:09,480
up shop and I said, out there, what was your

763
00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:13,320
favorite Texans almost a playoff team moment in twenty twenty five.

764
00:36:14,119 --> 00:36:17,400
But I'm not gonna worry about that. Texans are going

765
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,880
to win by at least ten points. Sold you that

766
00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:26,320
yesterday ain't scared Buffalo. Different story. So there's your obligatory

767
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:27,320
Texans previews.

768
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:28,119
Speaker 2: I've done it better.

769
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:31,079
Speaker 1: Anybody else abousand Towns is going to steal my material.

770
00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:31,679
Speaker 2: I just told you.

771
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,199
Speaker 1: There's your breakdown, all right. So to the more important thing,

772
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:39,320
frankly right now, is how is Dana Brown massaging things

773
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,719
at the general managers meetings in Las Vegas.

774
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 7: Now?

775
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: They're going to have the Winter meetings coming up shortly

776
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,360
after that, But a lot of these meetings are just

777
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,920
an opportunity for everybody to get together and shake hands

778
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,679
and drink beers and talk crap about each other. And

779
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,239
then a lot of the heavy lifting, the conversation pieces

780
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,159
about what you're doing with your team is done back

781
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,719
at home. Now, you may want to set up some

782
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,320
face to face meetings with the agents. That could certainly happen.

783
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,280
You could also do zooms. You can also have phone

784
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,239
calls and text. But you're kind of formulating your game plan.

785
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,159
You're getting in front of a couple of general managers

786
00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:12,840
and saying, hey, does this work for you or does

787
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,719
this work for you? To me, I'm not necessarily looking

788
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,119
forward to seeing Dana Brown make a bunch of moves

789
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,679
this offseason. When it comes to trades, I do believe

790
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,199
there is too much congestion in the infield. I do

791
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,400
believe you have one too many utility players. So those

792
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,880
are two situations that could resolve itself with one trade.

793
00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:43,599
But for me, if you're going to go spend decent

794
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:51,280
money on guys like Dylan Cees, Zach Gallon, Rangers Suarez,

795
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:59,960
Michael King, Justin Verlander Cease by far, I mean Verlander's

796
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,079
most recognizable to the group. But I'm but I'm dropping

797
00:38:02,599 --> 00:38:04,599
verlinerd way down to the other four, the first four

798
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:08,880
guys I mentioned, If you're gonna spend decent money on

799
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,039
the first two or three in that group, maybe even

800
00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:14,079
King if it's if, if it's in play, in play,

801
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:17,559
you know who's gonna watch how you spend your money

802
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:19,639
on your pitching staff. It's gonna be your It's gonna

803
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:25,679
be your race. Because already Fromburry is not going to return.

804
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,880
So the decision was easily made there that they're not

805
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,519
going to spend long term money on that guy. How

806
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:38,639
is Hunter going to enjoy this experience?

807
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 2: I think the.

808
00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:46,039
Speaker 1: If there was the most important thing might be to

809
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:49,400
decongest the infield, or it might be to go get

810
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,480
at least two arms this offseason. But how do you

811
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,360
handle any sort of negotiations with Hunter Brown and or

812
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,599
Jeremy Painey this offseason that you don't start thinking about

813
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,920
whether or not these guys are going to be Astros

814
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,519
beyond their initial contracts. I hope there is as much

815
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:14,400
conversation about trying to buy out arbitration years for both

816
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,480
those guys as there is this conversation about how to

817
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:22,360
fill out the starting rotation for twenty twenty six. Because

818
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,920
if you sit here and you give the Dylan Cees

819
00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:28,559
this crazy money for five or six years, or Zach

820
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:32,239
Gowan or Rangers Suarez or Michael King or even I

821
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,199
don't even count Justin Erleonard, because if you're bringing back

822
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,039
Justin Erlenard, you're bringing it back on a one year deal,

823
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:39,679
probably maybe one year or a team option or mutual option.

824
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,440
I don't even care at this point, but it's not

825
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,280
going to break the bank if you do give heavy

826
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:51,519
money in decent years. Then does that signal to Hunter

827
00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:56,159
Brown that maybe they don't want to get into a

828
00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:59,679
long term conversation, they don't want to buy out arbitration years?

829
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 2: Can you do both?

830
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,199
Speaker 1: Of course you can. There's no one really You have

831
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,239
a luxury tax spreshold me meeting, which is you know

832
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,679
some of the astros will be well aware of. But

833
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,360
you also have to figure out at some point you're

834
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,760
going to have to keep some of the homegrown talent

835
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,559
because you haven't done it yet. You get, well, that's

836
00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:21,920
not true. You kept Al Tuvey, you've kept yorn On,

837
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,199
you bought out arbitration years for who's the number two

838
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,199
starter for the astros? And drawing a blank here? Russell

839
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:38,519
wish it was with me here. Okay, I'll think about

840
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,199
who it's saying. I'm doing a live radio here, so

841
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,920
I'm trying. I'm in a brain cramp. Uh, You've done

842
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,199
that with a handful of players. You know, ord On

843
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,519
you took care of obviously. But the reality is, if

844
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:52,719
Hunter doesn't get some sort of sign that something might work,

845
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,760
is he going to be thinking about why should I

846
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:05,119
be playing down the road? So I hope it's a

847
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:10,719
really really good conversation piece that the Astros will seriously

848
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,280
put something in front of Hunter Brown to say, yes,

849
00:41:15,679 --> 00:41:17,440
he is definitely Christian Hobviers. I'm thinking about it. I

850
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:19,800
just saw the name Christian Hobvier. They bought an arbitration

851
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,639
years for Carl Christian Haavier. They've taken care of him.

852
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,639
And I know Sprince Araghetty is still around. I know

853
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,440
that Jays Alexander certainly didn't well for himself last year.

854
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,239
Blue balls certainly thought of and you still have Lance

855
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,920
Mculors for one more year. And I'm not thinking about

856
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,400
twenty twenty six. I'm thinking about do we have to

857
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,320
start every year thinking about where is Hunter Brown gonna go?

858
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,280
Where's Jimmy Pinion gonna go. I'd like it to be

859
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,599
at one point where the Astros don't have to think about, man,

860
00:41:46,039 --> 00:41:48,320
should we trade this guy like we traded Kyle Tucker.

861
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,320
That's not fun conversation to have. Ten fifty nine on

862
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,280
Sports Talk seven ninety we get the second hour start

863
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,840
of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming up in

864
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,559
a moment seven one three two one two five seven

865
00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:04,079
ninety seven two one two five seven nine.

866
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: Zero Shut your ball mass up.

867
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,639
Speaker 1: At eleven thirty today Chris Meyers, Fox Sports at one o'clock,

868
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,320
the News at noon, believe it or not, all coming

869
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,320
up between now and then. You want to chime in,

870
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,280
how important do you is Hunter Brown getting something perhaps

871
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,360
done way ahead of time. I would think the obviously

872
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,960
answer wuld be, of course, Man, it isn't important. He's

873
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,559
a true race and sometimes you got to pay the

874
00:42:26,599 --> 00:42:30,039
true races problem, man is he's got that.

875
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 2: Damn.

876
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: Scott Boris is an agent. The Astros don't do particularly

877
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,840
well with Scott Boris is an agent except for it's

878
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,159
Hose Altovia. But Jose again, in my mind, in your

879
00:42:39,199 --> 00:42:42,719
mind too, I'm sure that was a special situation. Seven

880
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,760
one three two one two five seven ninety is the

881
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,159
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

882
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: It's eleven o five on Sports too.

883
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: To make sure it's working, Jonathan, apparently it is. Hope

884
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,239
you guys are in a good What a glorious week

885
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,039
we had weatherwise?

886
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: Yes, it's nice.

887
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: Man makes you want to do to show out doors,

888
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,400
going to run? Who I'm not going crazy on that?

889
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 3: All right?

890
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: Hey, we got Rockets basketball tonight, Cougar basketball tonight. We

891
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,599
have Wednesday night college football. I'm assuming let me I'm

892
00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:33,480
going to assume there's a very mid level game on tonight.

893
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,039
Let's take a look here. Who the Wednesday night college

894
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:39,840
football game is. Oh, there's nothing. Let me see here, FBS,

895
00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:45,239
it is Buffalo. There's three games tonight in the MAC

896
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:55,280
Buffalo at Central Michigan, Northern Illinois at UMass, and Toledo

897
00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:03,320
at Miami of Ohio. Look, I know you all of

898
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:10,119
us can't go to our favorite power for schools, but damn.

899
00:44:11,639 --> 00:44:12,199
Speaker 2: Your cut.

900
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: Look there's a lot of you that grew up going

901
00:44:16,559 --> 00:44:21,840
to colleges and on Saturdays, you were tailgating, and you

902
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,960
were at the bars before the game, you were bars

903
00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:28,239
after the game, you were tailgating at the stadium. You

904
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,320
were there at eleven o'clock for a two thirty game,

905
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,280
or you were there at eleven o'clock for a seven

906
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,599
o'clock game. I don't even care, but that's the charm.

907
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,320
You got to enjoy the experience of college football. You

908
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,599
were watching games, you had your direct TV set up,

909
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,559
or at least your satellite dish or whatever your cable box.

910
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 2: These poor kids at.

911
00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: Central Michigan, UMass in Miami of Ohio, you can't pregame

912
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:58,480
on a Wednesday. You got class till four o'clock, and

913
00:44:58,559 --> 00:45:02,199
I guess you go right from classes to But I mean,

914
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:07,159
I know it's a it's a muddied television landscape. And

915
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,960
if CBS Sports Network or ESPN U or ESPN Ocho says, yeah,

916
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:14,199
Mac will put your games on, but you're not gonna

917
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:16,400
be playing at a time that anybody's gonna be watching.

918
00:45:17,119 --> 00:45:18,519
I mean, would you rather be on the internet or

919
00:45:18,519 --> 00:45:20,400
would you rather have national coverage? I will take national

920
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,239
coverage when we're gonna play like Saturday eleven o'clock in

921
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,280
the morning, or maybe like Saturday night nine thirty. No, no, no,

922
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:32,599
You're playing Wednesday at six. Wednesday at six o'clock. Yesh.

923
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,039
So shout out to any of you that are Northern

924
00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:37,599
Illinois UMass fans. Your team is playing tonight. Good luck

925
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:40,119
to you. Old that all right. Texan's back on the

926
00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:44,800
practice field today, getting ready for the Tennessee Titans. They

927
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,119
are still heavily favored in the game. It doesn't really

928
00:45:48,159 --> 00:45:51,239
matter who's quarterbacking. If you were the quarterback, the Texas

929
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,760
would be at least a four point favorite. Right now,

930
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,440
it stands at Houston minus six and a half. The

931
00:45:56,679 --> 00:45:59,599
total and it is thirty eight and a half. It's

932
00:45:59,599 --> 00:46:04,039
a nin great not great at all for low scoring affair.

933
00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:06,599
Now over under last week was low two and the

934
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:10,400
two teams smacked that around pretty quickly. Texans are at

935
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,079
four and five. There is a thought we mentioned this

936
00:46:14,199 --> 00:46:18,480
on the show a little bit yesterday, that if things

937
00:46:18,599 --> 00:46:24,360
work out perfectly, the Texans can snag the final playoff

938
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,880
spot in the AFC. Was still a long way to go.

939
00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: Right now.

940
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,159
Speaker 1: The seven teams that are in would be the four

941
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:36,119
division leaders, which would be Indianapolis, Denver, New England, and Pittsburgh.

942
00:46:37,599 --> 00:46:40,920
The three wild cards would be the Chargers, the Bills,

943
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:46,679
and Jacksonville. The three teams that would be out that

944
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,599
are regulars to the playoffs would be the Kansas City Chiefs,

945
00:46:52,639 --> 00:46:56,559
the Houston Texans, and the Baltimore Ravens. Now, the reality

946
00:46:56,639 --> 00:46:58,480
is the Baltimore Ravens. I think I mentioned this on

947
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,880
to tell the truth on Monday. They're going to jump

948
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:05,280
the Pittsburgh Steelers. They only have They're only down. Baltimore

949
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,760
is one game with the Steelers, and I think Baltimore

950
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,760
is a better football team. Obviously, with Lamar Jackson out there,

951
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:16,239
Number two do y'all really think the Kansas City's not

952
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,320
going to make the playoffs Now. They may not be

953
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,760
sixteen and one, are fifteen and two, and they may

954
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,559
have regressed a little bit in the last couple of years,

955
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,239
but they still have enough offensive firepower. They should go

956
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,320
to Denver and they should win that football game, because

957
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,679
the reality is this. We've saw Denver first hit a

958
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:40,840
couple of weeks ago in person, and then if you

959
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,440
watch any of that Thursday night game last week between

960
00:47:43,519 --> 00:47:47,679
Las Vegas and Denver, that was a joke. But we've

961
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,480
had some sucking national games lately. Have y' all noticed

962
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:50,760
that too?

963
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 4: Now?

964
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: Granted, the Packers game with the Eagles was close, but

965
00:47:59,079 --> 00:48:05,320
it wasn't entertaining. And watching the Broncos barely beat the

966
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,880
Las Vegas Raiders on a Thursday night low scoring game

967
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:17,039
there too, that was tough. Kansas City should go to Denver.

968
00:48:17,639 --> 00:48:19,880
Kansas City is a better football team in Denver. I

969
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,599
don't care what the record state now. Is Denver's lead

970
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,679
so big in that AFC West they probably are going

971
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,800
to win the division anyway. That's a possibility of bad

972
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,840
for sure, But there are a lot of full records

973
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,880
out there. Do y'all really think that Denver is an

974
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,119
eight and two football team.

975
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:38,079
Speaker 13: I don't.

976
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: Are the Chargers really going to be seven and three?

977
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,400
I guess is what your record is, what it is,

978
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,000
what it is, what it says it is. So the

979
00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:56,280
question is candas Texas team take this lightning in a

980
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,239
bottle moment, i e. Winning the game against Jacksonville they

981
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,800
had no business winning, and can you do enough to

982
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,360
take that and run the table or do some sort

983
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,920
of incredible record. Like Wex has been saying this on

984
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,840
his show the last couple of days. I think he

985
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,960
stole it from me. Texans have to go seven to

986
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,599
two in the final nine games of the season to.

987
00:49:16,599 --> 00:49:17,159
Speaker 2: Make the playoffs.

988
00:49:17,159 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: Well, they already took care of the first one, knocking

989
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,159
off Jacksonville on Sunday. It goes six and to the

990
00:49:21,199 --> 00:49:22,840
rest of the way they go six and to the

991
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,960
rest of the way. That puts them at ten and seven.

992
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,119
I don't believe any nine and eight team is going

993
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:33,039
to make the playoffs in the AFC this year. Ten

994
00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:35,880
and seven I think gets it done. But if there's

995
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,559
a long gym of ten and seven teams, you got

996
00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:41,119
to figure out who you've beaten along the way, if

997
00:49:41,199 --> 00:49:43,440
the Texans get to ten and seven, they will have

998
00:49:43,519 --> 00:49:46,320
beaten teams that are directly in front of them to

999
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,880
make the playoffs. That means they would have beaten at

1000
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,920
least the Colts once. They probably have beaten Kansas City

1001
00:49:53,119 --> 00:49:55,559
in Kansas City, they would have beaten the Chargers in

1002
00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:57,760
Los Angeles, and they would have at least, at the

1003
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:04,440
very minimum, split the series with ups Colts. I don't

1004
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:10,000
think they've gotten in them to do that. But maybe

1005
00:50:10,039 --> 00:50:14,880
this defense is so ridiculously good that it will be

1006
00:50:15,039 --> 00:50:18,599
able to cover up which turned out to be a

1007
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,119
very disappointing offense.

1008
00:50:23,599 --> 00:50:25,079
Speaker 2: You gotta hope that's the case.

1009
00:50:26,079 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: And you also have to hope that some of these

1010
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:34,320
teams with these faux records come down to earth. And

1011
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:36,159
you also have to hope. And this is why I

1012
00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:38,719
don't think you're gonna win in this battle the Kansas

1013
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,800
City States where it is. I mean, can Jacksonville follow

1014
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,440
the playoff race? Absolutely, they're five and four, but they

1015
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,360
don't even act like a five and fourteen. They've got

1016
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,320
some bad losses. The loss to them to the loss

1017
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,639
they had to the Texans on Sunday might ruin the

1018
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:54,119
rest of their season. You heard all the people in

1019
00:50:54,199 --> 00:50:56,079
Jacksonville losing their damn mindes, and they lost a lot

1020
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:59,440
of games. They're used to losing the way they did

1021
00:50:59,679 --> 00:51:02,559
after being down, being up three scores in the fourth quarter.

1022
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,840
And Trevor Lawrence again could be the nicest guy in

1023
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,559
the world, has a terrific mane on his head, but

1024
00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:14,519
he sucks. He's a terrible, terrible quarterback. And when you're

1025
00:51:14,519 --> 00:51:16,960
getting paid fifty something million dollars a year, whatever it is,

1026
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,199
you can be called terrible because you are in that

1027
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,000
mega contract. And when you're making mega dollars, you have

1028
00:51:23,159 --> 00:51:26,000
to be good. And the reality is this for the

1029
00:51:26,079 --> 00:51:29,039
Texans when they signed c J. Stroud to this mega deal,

1030
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:31,400
which they'll be doing eventually because that's what quarterbacks get,

1031
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,039
he's got to be really good.

1032
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:35,079
Speaker 2: Because if c J.

1033
00:51:35,199 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: Stroud or any other quarterback is average at best, you're screwed.

1034
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:46,480
You can't if you're gonna put forty fifty sixty million

1035
00:51:46,519 --> 00:51:51,239
dollars behind a quarterback, you can't be average. And Jacksonville's

1036
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,639
got an average at best quarterback and that's why they're doomed.

1037
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:58,000
Eleven fourteen of the Matt Thomas showld Ross seven to

1038
00:51:58,039 --> 00:52:02,079
one three two one two five seven one three two

1039
00:52:02,159 --> 00:52:04,800
one two five seven honety coming up at the bottom

1040
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,840
of the hour. We got to shut your bull ass up.

1041
00:52:07,639 --> 00:52:10,000
Ain't nobody got time for that. We have the news

1042
00:52:10,039 --> 00:52:12,320
at noon, Chris Myers and Fox Sports gonna join us

1043
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,199
at one o'clock. And believe it or not, what do

1044
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:19,400
you guys want to get into Texans? Will CJ be

1045
00:52:19,519 --> 00:52:21,920
able to get on the practice field today? Well know

1046
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:27,079
in a matter of minutes. Also, Rockets big win against Milwaukee.

1047
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,760
I know Bigg's relative ternament was the ninth game of

1048
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,079
the season, but you know it is what it is.

1049
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,039
Chance for a nice sweet week with three winnable games

1050
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:39,400
Tonight against Washington, Friday against Portland, Sunday against Orlando. By

1051
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,159
the way, tonight's game with the Rockets is over on

1052
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,239
our sister station seven forty KTRI, so you want to

1053
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,079
check that out. Seven one three two one two five

1054
00:52:47,159 --> 00:52:50,400
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

1055
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:55,360
ninety Also are the general manager meetings and not the rumors,

1056
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,440
but just the conversation about the Astros going after a

1057
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:03,320
free ancient pitcher. Is it intriguing you or are you

1058
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,800
more concerned about keeping guys that are in uniform, happy

1059
00:53:07,039 --> 00:53:11,280
and paid, I e. Jeremy Pania and certainly Hunter Brown

1060
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,400
the Ace of your Roster seven one three two one

1061
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,239
two five seven NINTI it's a Matt Thalmaschel Ross eleven

1062
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:26,519
fifteen here on Sports Talk seven ninety all right, get

1063
00:53:26,559 --> 00:53:28,719
yourself party to shut some people up. Tell me to

1064
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,519
shut their by mass up in about ten minutes here

1065
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:34,000
on seven ninety seven one three two one two five

1066
00:53:34,119 --> 00:53:36,360
seven ninety The news at noon is coming up, plus

1067
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:37,719
Chris Meyer's at one o'clock.

1068
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:38,039
Speaker 2: All right.

1069
00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: So I was teasing Gordy before the show, and then

1070
00:53:41,159 --> 00:53:42,639
the first segment of the show about an hour ago,

1071
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:48,440
thank you for listening about his attempted humor, saying that

1072
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,719
if you get fired, you should have to go to

1073
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,840
it in front of an arbitrator to defend getting the contract.

1074
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,360
You're the money that is owed to you in a

1075
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:05,119
contract paid to you. And he said it was a joke.

1076
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,639
There was no laughing emojis, and I got, I caught him.

1077
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,840
I got, I got him in a bad take world,

1078
00:54:12,039 --> 00:54:13,719
and I took advantage of it. And so it was

1079
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,199
good nature to love Gordy like a brother. But it

1080
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,400
was a bad take in his parton exposed for it,

1081
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,719
It's gonna happen sometimes. I mean, I know, Jonathan by Way,

1082
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:21,719
I can see you. It's nice to see you.

1083
00:54:21,679 --> 00:54:23,199
Speaker 2: Here, Jonathan. Oh, I see all right?

1084
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:23,599
Speaker 4: You see me?

1085
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, look how comfortable I am right now.

1086
00:54:26,039 --> 00:54:28,719
I got my h blues on, I got my slacks.

1087
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,239
I'm ready to go. So if you have a bad take,

1088
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:32,760
I expose you for your bad take, just like you

1089
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,480
would expose you for.

1090
00:54:33,519 --> 00:54:35,039
Speaker 2: My bad takes. I mean, like, do you have on that?

1091
00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 7: Now?

1092
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:36,079
Speaker 2: It's a lot.

1093
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:38,159
Speaker 1: You've blown up, I know. Thank you very much Gordy

1094
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,239
for that. So his point was, yeah, one point in

1095
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:45,079
one k you got a thousand lives on this? Is

1096
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:48,119
that really that many? Oh my god, are you serious?

1097
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:49,199
Speaker 2: You got one point?

1098
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 6: What?

1099
00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:55,039
Speaker 2: Oh my it was seven ninety that hour ago. That's crazy?

1100
00:54:55,440 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: Oh my god, one hundred and fourteen thousand views? Oh

1101
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,519
Gordy does he know this? I don't know.

1102
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,559
Speaker 2: I'll listen to it because you just blew up like

1103
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,679
in the last the past hour. For sure.

1104
00:55:10,039 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: My tweet was you offered me a contract, I signed it,

1105
00:55:13,159 --> 00:55:15,400
case closed in five seconds. That's how it works even

1106
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:21,400
in LSU. Thank you Gordy, this is the anti ratio.

1107
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,920
I've only had twelve comments and most of our agreement

1108
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,639
with me one thousand and one or likes one hundred

1109
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:27,599
and fourteen thousand views.

1110
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 2: Damn you know, I'm a college football analyst. You ratio?

1111
00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: Ja oh co Why ratio and a co worker. I

1112
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,119
didn't mean to do that, Gordy, but damn it if

1113
00:55:36,159 --> 00:55:38,920
it worked, you know she fits. But to his central point,

1114
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,039
when he came in a few minutes ago, it's like, hey,

1115
00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:44,480
why are we doing this? Why are we guaranteeing contracts?

1116
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,199
And the standard answer is was because everybody guarantees contracts.

1117
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 2: Well, I want to see somebody do it. That ship

1118
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:59,199
has passed. No one.

1119
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: That's worth anything in the college football world, or for

1120
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,280
that matter, in the coaching world. Forgetting about college football.

1121
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:12,039
This is college basketball. It's the NFL. It's Major League Baseball. Now,

1122
00:56:12,039 --> 00:56:14,719
you don't hear much about Major League Baseball manager contracts,

1123
00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:17,840
but you certainly hear about NFL contracts. You hear about

1124
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:25,800
NBA contracts. This notion that when you fire a coach

1125
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,159
who has a guaranteed contract for him not to expect

1126
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,960
every dollar that is in that guarantee contract for him

1127
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,639
to be a nice guy and be diplomatic about it

1128
00:56:35,639 --> 00:56:37,639
and say, well, you know you fire me with five

1129
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,039
years left, and you know I'll take sixty cents on

1130
00:56:40,079 --> 00:56:46,519
the dollar. That's patent lee absurd. Well, Gordy's argument was, well,

1131
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,639
you came here to win games. You didn't win games,

1132
00:56:49,679 --> 00:56:52,159
so you didn't fulfill your contract. There is not a

1133
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:58,360
single stipulation in the contract that says, hi, you, Brian

1134
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,599
Kelly or James fra E. You are the coach at

1135
00:57:01,679 --> 00:57:06,360
Penn State. You are the coach at LSU. Your responsibilities

1136
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,920
are to win football games. Your responsibilities are to be

1137
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,280
the head coach you are. Your responsibilities are to be

1138
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:18,880
the leader of young men. You are responsible for adhering

1139
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,480
to all the rules that are a part of NCAA football,

1140
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:25,480
which frankly isn't much anymore. But nobody has a contract

1141
00:57:25,519 --> 00:57:28,559
that says we want you to come coach our team

1142
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,559
because we want you to win. That's just that's justn't assumed.

1143
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:34,519
Speaker 2: Now, if you.

1144
00:57:34,639 --> 00:57:37,719
Speaker 1: Want to build a contract that says if this particular

1145
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,559
coach does not win eight games by the second year

1146
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,199
or does not compete for a national championship by year

1147
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,800
number four, there are a voidable years in the contract.

1148
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:49,679
You could certainly do that, but guess who's going to

1149
00:57:49,719 --> 00:57:56,360
sign that. Absolutely nobody. There are some things in life

1150
00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:01,480
when it comes to employment that will never change. You

1151
00:58:01,559 --> 00:58:04,679
will never see a change in how college coaches are compensated.

1152
00:58:06,159 --> 00:58:10,960
Especially when you're a team or a school that wants

1153
00:58:11,039 --> 00:58:13,400
to pay big money to grab somebody away from somebody else.

1154
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:18,639
Your contract has to be lengthier, with more money and

1155
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:26,039
more guarantees and absolutely no thought avoidable years. In fact,

1156
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:33,280
these contracts are like, are still going to give you outs?

1157
00:58:35,079 --> 00:58:38,400
Let's say that, I mean I can. I'm going to

1158
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,639
assume that Willie Fritz has outs at the University of Houston.

1159
00:58:42,639 --> 00:58:44,039
I don't want him going anywhere. I want him to

1160
00:58:44,079 --> 00:58:47,679
be here long term. I don't think Willy's looking to

1161
00:58:47,719 --> 00:58:49,760
go anywhere because I mean, look, Willie has is in

1162
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,519
his been sixties, He's been moving around a lot in

1163
00:58:51,519 --> 00:58:53,719
the last fifteen years. I think he wants settle in

1164
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,039
and he's been compensated very very well. But even if

1165
00:58:57,079 --> 00:59:01,599
Woolley said I want to go somewhere else in his contract,

1166
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:04,039
there are break up of clauses to it. Now you

1167
00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:06,840
have to pay the university back but guess who does that.

1168
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:10,679
More than likely it's a school that's taking you on

1169
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:16,400
as your new coach. When Tom Herman left the University

1170
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,840
of Houston to go to the University of Texas and

1171
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,400
there were voidable there were contract paybacks to the University

1172
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,000
of Houston, it wasn't Tom Herman directly paying and it

1173
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:27,159
was probably the University of Texas doing it or some

1174
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:33,280
friend of or some donor or some sponsor. Yeah, the

1175
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:37,119
contracts don't work fair. They are heavily in favor of

1176
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:41,599
the employee in this particular case coaches. But this notion

1177
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,960
that just because you didn't win and just because I

1178
00:59:47,159 --> 00:59:49,719
fired you doesn't mean you got to pay that schools

1179
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,039
don't have to pay out what's available, what's left in

1180
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:54,519
the contract is absurd. That's why I got im know

1181
00:59:54,599 --> 01:00:00,039
Brian Kelly fan And unless Brian Kelly did something so

1182
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:05,559
dastardly that showed for cause, then he needs to be

1183
01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:08,119
getting a one big fact check of fifty three million

1184
01:00:08,159 --> 01:00:11,320
dollars from Louisiana State University in the bank of Tigers

1185
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,480
and Baton Rouge Louisiana.

1186
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 2: Period.

1187
01:00:19,159 --> 01:00:23,599
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And how LSU's trying to get into a

1188
01:00:23,679 --> 01:00:26,679
tussle with him over paying him portions of it. Now

1189
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,039
they're you know, you could also tie him up in

1190
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,360
legalities for a while and maybe they maybe they amp

1191
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,480
it up to forty million dollars whatever, that's up to

1192
01:00:34,519 --> 01:00:36,400
Brian Kelly. But Brian Kelly thinks he knows he's owned

1193
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,039
fifty three million dollars and the contract says that as

1194
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:41,039
much he's gonna get as fifty three million dollars.

1195
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,559
Speaker 2: But you said this last like earlier last week or

1196
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:46,519
maybe you know, earlier this week. You were saying how

1197
01:00:46,639 --> 01:00:48,920
bad this looks on the job, Like I don't think

1198
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,440
any of the coach would want to come to LSU

1199
01:00:50,599 --> 01:00:53,159
with all this political and like you know, right, well,

1200
01:00:53,639 --> 01:00:54,960
the question is how good is the job?

1201
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,199
Speaker 1: It's still an amazing job, right because if you're firing

1202
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,119
Kelly knowing that you probably have to pay fifty three

1203
01:01:01,119 --> 01:01:04,199
million dollars, that means you've got money somewhere. I don't

1204
01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:04,840
know where it is, but.

1205
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 2: You got it.

1206
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,679
Speaker 1: And usually again, Jonathan, you get you're talking about boosters

1207
01:01:10,719 --> 01:01:13,039
that are paying a lot of this. Yeah, but still,

1208
01:01:13,599 --> 01:01:15,800
how many boosters, sayes LSU have to go to to

1209
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,719
pay off a contract? And I don't know if that's

1210
01:01:18,719 --> 01:01:20,960
a lump some that Brian Kelly is own or they've

1211
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,039
got a certain amount of time to do so. But

1212
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:26,400
you're getting rid of fifty three million dollars to have

1213
01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:28,840
someone go away, and then you're gonna have to pay

1214
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,000
somebody a lot of money to come there, and you're

1215
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,760
gonna pay a lot of money for your staff to

1216
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,920
get there too. I mean, this could cost LSU well

1217
01:01:37,039 --> 01:01:39,320
north of one hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty million

1218
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:43,400
dollars to get this resolve. Because if you want anybody

1219
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,320
worth their salt to come to LSU, you're gonna have

1220
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,840
to pay him. Secondly, they're gonna be like, man, why

1221
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,159
don't I want to go somewhere where all Brian Kelly

1222
01:01:51,239 --> 01:01:52,760
did was win. Now, he didn't win to the level

1223
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,199
that was supposed to be won at. You didn't win

1224
01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:56,519
a national championship, but he won eight nine games every year. Right,

1225
01:01:57,760 --> 01:01:59,960
you're firing me with all that length on that contract.

1226
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:03,239
That's a tough tough sell. Now, some coach would be like,

1227
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,159
it's LSU, I can go. I can go to LSU.

1228
01:02:05,239 --> 01:02:08,360
I can recruit Baton Rouge, New Orleans, La Fayette, tip

1229
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,440
A do and be done and win a national championsh

1230
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,400
I knew something that Brian Kelly didn't do. As long

1231
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:17,000
as you pay me and as long as my contract's guaranteed,

1232
01:02:18,039 --> 01:02:21,960
the guaranteed contract for coaches is not going away. It's cool,

1233
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:23,800
it's cool and find interesting. You're thinking it might, but

1234
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:28,400
it's never going to all right, I've done enough talking here.

1235
01:02:30,599 --> 01:02:34,039
I'm almost over this cold about ninety percent. By the way,

1236
01:02:34,199 --> 01:02:36,280
the saline stuff is working out very well, Thank you

1237
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:36,760
very much.

1238
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 2: It's good.

1239
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: And chicken noodle soup also helps too.

1240
01:02:41,639 --> 01:02:42,119
Speaker 2: Listen to me.

1241
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: You got to tell the people to shut their bumbasses up, Jonath,

1242
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,719
I'm starting with you seven one three two one two

1243
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:57,559
five seven ninety eleven thirty five. I got things to say,

1244
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,199
let them out. I'm going this is it this, you

1245
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,159
know what if y'all want, I want y'all involved in

1246
01:03:03,239 --> 01:03:05,719
this because this makes you feel better, makes me feel better.

1247
01:03:08,039 --> 01:03:10,920
Somebody piss you off at the office, on the roads,

1248
01:03:11,599 --> 01:03:14,480
at home, at the restaurant with lousy service.

1249
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 2: Oh, shut their bone masses up, mate, shit so bow

1250
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:19,440
mass up.

1251
01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:19,719
Speaker 5: Man.

1252
01:03:21,119 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: Anybody make you wait long lines, Anybody make you get delayed,

1253
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,159
flights canceled, flights. Anybody got time for that.

1254
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,199
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody got time for our federal government shut down.

1255
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:37,519
Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got people

1256
01:03:37,599 --> 01:03:39,119
missing flights, people.

1257
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:43,559
Speaker 1: Having to read book, massive delays, don't come to the

1258
01:03:43,599 --> 01:03:45,039
airport to four hours after your.

1259
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:45,679
Speaker 2: Flight was scheduled.

1260
01:03:45,679 --> 01:03:48,199
Speaker 1: Anybody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time for

1261
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,679
another one? Jonathan, you hear me, I'm getting fired up.

1262
01:03:51,719 --> 01:03:53,119
I'm gonna fire myself up.

1263
01:03:53,119 --> 01:03:53,679
Speaker 2: I gotta do it.

1264
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:58,159
Speaker 1: Okay, if you food shame me, shut your baue mass

1265
01:03:58,239 --> 01:03:59,920
up man shit so bow.

1266
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:01,559
Speaker 2: Man up man food saying, do you buy the mc

1267
01:04:01,599 --> 01:04:05,199
grib now? Stop me, stop food shaming me. I don't

1268
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:06,800
like what you like. I don't shame you.

1269
01:04:09,519 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: I don't want you go to you go to a

1270
01:04:11,079 --> 01:04:13,599
rarts ricking to get the lizards and gizzards, and I

1271
01:04:13,679 --> 01:04:21,639
don't shame you for that. You eat uh caviar, the

1272
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,800
gross ass stuff. I don't make you. I don't make

1273
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,800
I don't make fun of you. I may talk behind

1274
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,519
your back on it to your face. Shut your bo

1275
01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:29,920
mass up shit, so bam mass up man.

1276
01:04:30,079 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 2: I like mc ribs, I like egg salad, I like mayonnaise.

1277
01:04:33,159 --> 01:04:36,840
I like rinch dressing. I like it all. Oh, excelence,

1278
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:39,760
we don't like eggs salad? What's the matter with you?

1279
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:42,039
The smell alone? Oh?

1280
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:44,679
Speaker 1: I like me some make salad. I'm gonna give me

1281
01:04:44,679 --> 01:04:46,239
an egg sola sandwich. I munch you in a minute,

1282
01:04:46,239 --> 01:04:49,960
I think, stay with me. Think I want to breathath

1283
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:54,480
of you hot. It's gonna be creamy, delicious. Man, not

1284
01:04:54,559 --> 01:04:58,079
my breath, but you know, sandwich. What else I got

1285
01:04:58,119 --> 01:04:59,239
going on? I got a lot of things.

1286
01:05:00,039 --> 01:05:00,159
Speaker 3: Yea.

1287
01:05:00,199 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: The airport stuff is pissed me off because all my

1288
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:03,559
friends are flights are being missed and delayed, and I

1289
01:05:03,599 --> 01:05:05,880
feel terrible. I don't thankful them to try not traveling

1290
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,639
commercially right now, But I mean if I was, I'd

1291
01:05:07,679 --> 01:05:08,239
be really mad.

1292
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,159
Speaker 2: You know, we spend money to keep our funn You

1293
01:05:12,199 --> 01:05:14,800
know I have friends that are flighting, that are flight

1294
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:19,639
air travel controllers. They have been paying a month. I'm sorry,

1295
01:05:19,679 --> 01:05:23,000
but that's unfair. I got time for this.

1296
01:05:23,119 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's get back working again. Heiny, nobody got

1297
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,599
you think it's bad? Now, imagine what Thanksgiving week's gonna

1298
01:05:28,599 --> 01:05:30,239
be like and people are trying to travel with their Thanksgiving.

1299
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,480
If if I was traveling for Thanksgiving? How to cancel

1300
01:05:32,519 --> 01:05:35,119
my flights right now? I wouldn't even test. I wouldn't

1301
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:36,119
even test it.

1302
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 2: Maybe with a slimmer hope you're not can keep it snice.

1303
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it now. I'm not going anywhere. I'm

1304
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,199
going with the rockets and a road trip, but we're not.

1305
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:44,639
It's not a commercial trip. So just saying, Johnny, what's

1306
01:05:44,679 --> 01:05:45,159
the matter with you?

1307
01:05:45,599 --> 01:05:45,719
Speaker 13: Uh?

1308
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 2: I'm a small talker. I like to get you know,

1309
01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:51,519
quit a little small talk in the move o day. Okay,

1310
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,679
I'm a nice guy. I'm not gonna tell you to

1311
01:05:55,719 --> 01:05:57,360
the Facebook. If you give me a whole story and

1312
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,280
you keep me tapped on a conversation, I'm gonna start

1313
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,719
looking at you weird. Ain't nobody get time for the

1314
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,440
full story. I just want to say, Hi, how you doing?

1315
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:04,559
Tell me how you're doing?

1316
01:06:04,599 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: Real quick in all my way, especially if I'm in

1317
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,360
the studio, everybody doesn't produc her. I got three minutes

1318
01:06:08,519 --> 01:06:11,280
max to walk around. Don't trap me in a conversation. Now,

1319
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,039
I'm gonna feel bad, like no, no one's got time

1320
01:06:13,079 --> 01:06:13,199
for that.

1321
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 9: Man.

1322
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:16,559
Speaker 1: There's someone here at the office that's trying to have

1323
01:06:16,639 --> 01:06:18,000
a long conversation with you.

1324
01:06:18,159 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 2: It's almost to say it's not the same person, but

1325
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:21,519
almost how you had it that one day and you

1326
01:06:21,639 --> 01:06:23,519
met her of Ross believe you drive he did.

1327
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,159
Speaker 1: That happened to me the other day. I'm like, I

1328
01:06:26,199 --> 01:06:27,880
got two minutes to heat of my food. Man, let

1329
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,079
me go like yeah, you know, like noe's got time

1330
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:33,199
for that. Microwaving food is about microwaving it, watching the

1331
01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:35,920
time or go from two minutes to zero, stirring it up,

1332
01:06:36,199 --> 01:06:38,159
bringing it back to where you're gonna sit, and eactly

1333
01:06:38,239 --> 01:06:38,639
I need it.

1334
01:06:39,039 --> 01:06:41,559
Speaker 2: That's what that little tu minutive piece alight got my food?

1335
01:06:41,599 --> 01:06:42,079
You know what I mean?

1336
01:06:42,199 --> 01:06:45,199
Speaker 1: Like, come on, man, I get you seven one three

1337
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,519
two one two five seven ninety Angela and seven ninety Angela.

1338
01:06:48,559 --> 01:06:49,239
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you?

1339
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:49,519
Speaker 3: Wait?

1340
01:06:49,599 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 2: Throw it back?

1341
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 3: Hold on?

1342
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:52,239
Speaker 1: Am I doing it again?

1343
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:53,599
Speaker 3: All right?

1344
01:06:53,639 --> 01:06:54,119
Speaker 1: Trying again?

1345
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:54,679
Speaker 2: Angela?

1346
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: What's the matter with you?

1347
01:06:58,320 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 7: What?

1348
01:06:58,559 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 2: Hold on out? Heart?

1349
01:07:00,599 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 1: Hold, I'm putting her on hold. I locked her in there.

1350
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,440
All right, I'm in a new broadcast spot here. We

1351
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:07,159
can try this again.

1352
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:08,119
Speaker 2: There we go.

1353
01:07:09,679 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: Nice, Hi Angela. What's the matter with you? Angela?

1354
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 12: Well, I'm calling because I'm tired of the rockets, not

1355
01:07:17,679 --> 01:07:21,559
getting the respect or the shine nationally they should get.

1356
01:07:22,119 --> 01:07:25,199
Speaker 10: And it brings me to the game on Sunday. I'm sorry,

1357
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:27,440
on what was it Friday when they played the Spurs.

1358
01:07:27,559 --> 01:07:30,159
Speaker 1: They did okay, So.

1359
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 12: The sideline reporter was talking about the Spurs fans.

1360
01:07:36,519 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 10: I don't know what they're called. I think the Flaky's

1361
01:07:38,519 --> 01:07:43,800
or something. I don't know. I don't know what they're called.

1362
01:07:44,679 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 3: I don't know that they were given a name.

1363
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:52,239
Speaker 8: But the thing is they were saying how wimbley. He

1364
01:07:52,679 --> 01:07:56,440
was like, oh, he's got the the the group of people.

1365
01:07:56,599 --> 01:07:59,679
But they never made mentioned that the Rockets did it

1366
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,000
before them because Jeff van Gundy started with the Red

1367
01:08:03,119 --> 01:08:08,679
rowdies and he So I just think paramount sideline reporter,

1368
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,119
ain't nobody got time for that.

1369
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,199
Speaker 10: Here the credit where the credit is due, Thank you.

1370
01:08:14,519 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Now she's talking. She's talking about

1371
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,079
that group of fans that sit in the upper level

1372
01:08:21,119 --> 01:08:23,399
of the baseline on one on the side of the court.

1373
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:27,840
They do have a strange name, the Flakyes, I don't know,

1374
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,880
think the Flaky funny they are though, No, they're the

1375
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:37,119
Jackals Jackals on me and the Jackals are the official

1376
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:38,600
Wemby Spurs supporters.

1377
01:08:39,159 --> 01:08:42,319
Speaker 2: So what they do is they sit like where the rowdy.

1378
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: Sit at the Tota Center, in that same set, you know,

1379
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:48,199
baseline about fifteen twenty rows up yea. And then at

1380
01:08:48,279 --> 01:08:50,000
halftime when I went to go to the bathroom because

1381
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:54,760
I'm on the concourse, they start, uh like not a

1382
01:08:54,840 --> 01:09:00,680
banded procession, but like they walk around and singing, enchanting

1383
01:09:01,159 --> 01:09:03,079
in the concourse at halftime.

1384
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: Okay, the a capella group almost No, they're.

1385
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,359
Speaker 1: Just yelling, you know, Spurs are the best, Spurs are

1386
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:11,840
the best.

1387
01:09:12,199 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 2: Let's go Spurs. Let's go Spur. You know stuff like that.

1388
01:09:17,039 --> 01:09:17,520
You know what I got.

1389
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: I wanna tell you that right now, jackals, I need

1390
01:09:22,039 --> 01:09:25,279
to go urinate. I may want to go get a sandwich.

1391
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,800
Get out of my concourse. Anybody got time for you

1392
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,119
to be scoing. Let's go Wemby.

1393
01:09:31,279 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 2: You do that for two and a half hours.

1394
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 7: You know.

1395
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,039
Speaker 2: I got another one. Actually, I tall you her I

1396
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,720
all over because after we lost to the Spurs all over.

1397
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:44,239
My four you tab on the Twitter streets is the

1398
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,600
salty Jalen Green Rockets fans saying that we should never

1399
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,119
have a trade for Katie. He's a bum. This this

1400
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:53,800
this and this man, it's the first what ten eleven games?

1401
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:58,079
Such a bum look? Come on, man, and they're the

1402
01:09:58,159 --> 01:10:00,319
same fans to be repping a kadie is he at

1403
01:10:00,319 --> 01:10:02,439
the Toyota Center when we get we're doing all right

1404
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,159
do this and Naz what do? I don't know what

1405
01:10:04,239 --> 01:10:04,600
we're doing.

1406
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're bashing on KD And you

1407
01:10:07,039 --> 01:10:09,640
got Phoenix fans being like no, refines like come on, dude,

1408
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,640
like no, by the way, uh I think uh, Jalen

1409
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:14,000
it's gonna be out four to six weeks with a

1410
01:10:14,039 --> 01:10:16,840
bad hamstrang than there it is. Well, I mean I

1411
01:10:17,079 --> 01:10:20,840
like Jalen, but I mean him and injuries happened. Let

1412
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:24,000
me tell you, Yeah, Spurs jackals have an Instagram account.

1413
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:30,319
They have two and eighty five followers VIC and they're

1414
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:33,159
on their Instagram. It says Victor Wimanyem is initiative to

1415
01:10:33,199 --> 01:10:35,199
create the largest home court advantage in the NBA for

1416
01:10:35,279 --> 01:10:37,960
the Spurs. I wonder if he pays for the tickets. Now,

1417
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:39,880
if he does that, that's cool because Van Gundy did

1418
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:44,640
that for a while for the Rockets. But these people,

1419
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:51,119
I mean, they probably date each other, have relations with

1420
01:10:51,239 --> 01:10:56,079
each other. It kind of is like traveling Texans fans

1421
01:10:56,119 --> 01:11:02,800
honestly Spurs jackals. That's gotta be a Wemby reference of

1422
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:07,359
some sort. Yeah, they're screaming, let's go Spurs, Way to

1423
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:08,119
go Spurs.

1424
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 2: Who loves the Spurs? What do you do?

1425
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 1: I mean, get out of my way? They go to

1426
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:18,359
the bathroom. Can make a time for you yelling Spurs crap.

1427
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:21,600
At halftime you're up by one point and he won

1428
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,279
the game, and I'm good for you. But come on,

1429
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:32,520
And there's one dude that NBA on Prime took a

1430
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,880
picture of this dude. He didn't have a shirt on.

1431
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,840
He's got a big, fat gut hairy chest, which is gross,

1432
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,840
and it's wearing a terrible mustache and bad hair. Some

1433
01:11:44,039 --> 01:11:46,079
ladies like the chest hair. I don't know if I

1434
01:11:46,159 --> 01:11:51,439
mean I got chest hair, I'm saying that. But he's

1435
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:57,079
got man breast too. I mean, and look I just

1436
01:11:57,159 --> 01:11:59,039
have man breast myself too. Look at you know that

1437
01:11:59,199 --> 01:12:00,840
right here. I'm I want to send you this. Look

1438
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,439
at this video. I'm gonna show you this on the

1439
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,600
screen alright. Look at it dancing like this. Look at

1440
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:10,000
him dancing the kind of lame do red rowdies dance, y'all. Hey,

1441
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,560
if y'all read rowdies, y'all dance or no, But y'all,

1442
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:15,920
what y'are ogs? You're allowed to dance. And you know what,

1443
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,439
you're a Rocket fans too, So I ain't gonna rif

1444
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:17,680
on you.

1445
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:20,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't.

1446
01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:22,199
Speaker 1: You're you're basically impersonating them.

1447
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:24,159
Speaker 3: All right.

1448
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,039
Speaker 1: Back on the Phone's next for more of shut your bumss.

1449
01:12:28,199 --> 01:12:29,800
I'll tell you did I don't tell y'all. This is

1450
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:31,840
the best weekend radio, a half hour and show in radio.

1451
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:36,560
It just makes you feel better. Seven one, three, two, one, two, five, seven, nine,

1452
01:12:38,159 --> 01:12:41,239
eleven fifty one on Sports Talk sevenrity today's edition of

1453
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:43,199
Believe It or Not, ADDIE's gonna be in a Live

1454
01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:45,640
or Dead this week and Jonathan, I'm gonna add a

1455
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,039
little layer to it. I'm gonna take some of my

1456
01:12:47,119 --> 01:12:48,840
favorite television shows of all time.

1457
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:51,119
Speaker 3: All right.

1458
01:12:51,319 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 2: So that's what Three's Company.

1459
01:12:55,399 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 7: R R was.

1460
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:01,319
Speaker 1: Okay, it's okay, okay, you get my drift, And I'm

1461
01:13:01,359 --> 01:13:03,760
taking sections of their show and saying, are any of

1462
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:04,760
these members of these.

1463
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:05,520
Speaker 2: Shows still alive?

1464
01:13:06,319 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 1: Mm?

1465
01:13:07,279 --> 01:13:07,560
Speaker 2: Okay.

1466
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: So they're going like duo trio quads of people on

1467
01:13:11,039 --> 01:13:15,159
one question. So if you're a big fan of seventies

1468
01:13:15,199 --> 01:13:18,920
and eighties television, even nineties television. That's today's edition to

1469
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:21,239
Believe It or Not is are these sections of these

1470
01:13:21,319 --> 01:13:24,479
people on these shows still alive? I'll give you a

1471
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,600
case in point. We did this last time with the

1472
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:28,319
Brady Bunch.

1473
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:31,279
Speaker 2: I fraid bunch.

1474
01:13:32,199 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, are all six members all six kids

1475
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:38,720
of the Brady Bunch still alive? And the answer be okay,

1476
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:41,880
So that's not one of them this week. But that's

1477
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:45,520
what I'm doing with threes Company.

1478
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:46,199
Speaker 3: We did before.

1479
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: Are all members of Three's companies still live? The answer is,

1480
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,600
believe it it's Janet. Jack is dead, Chrissy's dead.

1481
01:13:53,239 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 3: So there you go.

1482
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: We're doing quads and duos and trios of your favorite

1483
01:13:58,479 --> 01:14:02,439
television stars. I Believe or Not today seven one, three, two,

1484
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:05,399
one two five, seven ninety Roger with you so on

1485
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:07,680
seven nine eleven fifty two, Roger, whit's matter with you?

1486
01:14:08,159 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 2: Wait thumb back, I don't know whatever? What are you

1487
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,359
doing back there? What I know you're on? I'll have

1488
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:14,960
come down to break which pin the whole hold?

1489
01:14:15,039 --> 01:14:17,199
Speaker 1: Okay, alright, there is.

1490
01:14:17,359 --> 01:14:22,640
Speaker 9: Oh hello Roger, Hello guys, Yeah, I got something to

1491
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:27,239
piggyback on that Friday Thursday. Yeah my, uh mya the

1492
01:14:27,359 --> 01:14:32,319
rhythm on social media kick on posting, uh how windy

1493
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:35,840
h cooks the rockets with his twenty two points from

1494
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,520
what what on earth are they talking about?

1495
01:14:39,039 --> 01:14:39,199
Speaker 3: Why?

1496
01:14:39,359 --> 01:14:42,520
Speaker 9: Why is all windy? It was some unknown guy's named

1497
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:45,479
capt the Little Champagne and the Corpse.

1498
01:14:45,199 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: Of Champagne barn work and yeah him too.

1499
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,680
Speaker 9: Yeah that's what I'm saying, Like you guys, let's see

1500
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:53,439
how that holds up throughout the year. And they're come

1501
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:56,720
and talking until they shut your boss.

1502
01:14:56,319 --> 01:14:58,159
Speaker 2: Up, shits up.

1503
01:14:58,359 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 1: I know these Spurs may not go away though. That's

1504
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:04,239
my problem. I'm a little concerned about how good they're

1505
01:15:04,239 --> 01:15:07,439
gonna be this year. Don't tell Adam Planting that either.

1506
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:09,640
Don't tell him that Wimby's good, and he won't believe you.

1507
01:15:12,119 --> 01:15:12,520
Speaker 2: Spurs.

1508
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,560
Speaker 1: By the way, this year, I was gonna get cocky

1509
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,000
spur fainting. And they've been quiet the last handful of years.

1510
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:23,319
They're at eight and two. By the way, Oklahoma City

1511
01:15:23,399 --> 01:15:25,279
is eleven and one. Anybody got time for the thunder

1512
01:15:25,279 --> 01:15:28,279
to be good again? Ain't nobody got time for dead?

1513
01:15:30,319 --> 01:15:32,239
You know what I'm doing right now? I gotta shut

1514
01:15:32,239 --> 01:15:36,079
my hown bum mess up. I'm standings watching Rockets to

1515
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:38,560
bum mess up. Man, The Rockets have played nine games?

1516
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:41,880
What is wrong with me? I mean, there's a lot

1517
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:45,159
of things, but you wait until late February before we look. No,

1518
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:48,680
I'm doing every night. It's not good for your health.

1519
01:15:49,239 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 7: You know.

1520
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,600
Speaker 1: The only that's true, you know, the only standings that

1521
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:55,000
don't look at are spring training stats numbers like I

1522
01:15:55,039 --> 01:15:56,960
couldn't tell you how the Astros in the last five

1523
01:15:57,039 --> 01:16:00,920
spring trainings. But another Rockets are the two seed last year.

1524
01:16:01,279 --> 01:16:02,720
All right, are you putting line one up for me?

1525
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:03,279
Or am I doing?

1526
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 3: All right?

1527
01:16:04,079 --> 01:16:06,079
Speaker 1: Let's go to Ryan on seventy Ryan, what's the matter

1528
01:16:06,119 --> 01:16:06,279
with you?

1529
01:16:06,399 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 3: This week?

1530
01:16:08,399 --> 01:16:08,600
Speaker 10: Man?

1531
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,199
Speaker 14: I had some of my neighbor friends and their kids

1532
01:16:11,239 --> 01:16:13,199
come over. We had a fire pit in my house.

1533
01:16:13,279 --> 01:16:15,359
And then so Saturday I woke up and I saw

1534
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:17,239
the fire fit out there. Or Sunday I woke up,

1535
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,239
so I hung at TV and had some beers and

1536
01:16:20,279 --> 01:16:21,560
watched the Texans outside.

1537
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:22,600
Speaker 9: I had a good time.

1538
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 14: Old the neighbors came over and hung out. Sure, yesterday

1539
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:27,399
I got an hoa letter. They want to find me

1540
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,640
one hundred dollars shut your bumb ass up.

1541
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 1: Man up, Wait a minute for having the TV in

1542
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:33,600
the backyard.

1543
01:16:35,359 --> 01:16:37,119
Speaker 14: No, it's like a reserve next to my house. But

1544
01:16:37,159 --> 01:16:39,000
it's not even owned by the It's not even owned

1545
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,720
by our neighborhood. It's owned by the county. But they

1546
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,239
wrote me I got fined by our HOA and they

1547
01:16:44,239 --> 01:16:45,439
don't even own that property.

1548
01:16:46,399 --> 01:16:48,319
Speaker 1: Can I just tell hoas to shut their bumb mass

1549
01:16:48,359 --> 01:16:48,560
up in.

1550
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 2: Period soum ass up?

1551
01:16:50,119 --> 01:16:50,279
Speaker 7: Man?

1552
01:16:51,319 --> 01:16:54,399
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, you know why because sometimes when my trash

1553
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,239
gets picked up, I take it to the garage and

1554
01:16:57,279 --> 01:16:59,439
I don't put it inside the garage and they write

1555
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:02,079
me nasty. So you can't have your cans visible. Shut

1556
01:17:02,119 --> 01:17:03,039
your bumb ass up.

1557
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 7: Them.

1558
01:17:08,119 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 1: I am done with h o A's. Down with h

1559
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,000
o A's y'all. Y'all a bunch of eighty year old bities.

1560
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,640
You got nothing else better to do than just irritate

1561
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:17,039
people in your neighborhood. So to the eighty year old

1562
01:17:17,039 --> 01:17:18,479
biddies that are at my h o A and King

1563
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:19,159
would shut.

1564
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 2: Your bum asses up.

1565
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: Shit ass up man, Thank you, Ryan appreciate it. I

1566
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,600
didn't mean to I didn't mean a low key do

1567
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:29,039
that to them. But now I do put my cans

1568
01:17:29,079 --> 01:17:30,880
in my garage, none of any times out of one hundred.

1569
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 2: So this is like, I guess early, I just don't

1570
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,319
get it because I'm I'm pretty young. But uh, what's

1571
01:17:35,359 --> 01:17:38,279
the point of them finding Ryan one hundred dollars? It's like,

1572
01:17:38,319 --> 01:17:39,439
what's what's the because.

1573
01:17:39,239 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: He probably was doing it on a plot of land

1574
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,880
or area that was not his, So he's gonna they're

1575
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:46,560
gonna fin him a hundred bucks. They don't do it again,

1576
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,199
and that goes to the h o A that goes

1577
01:17:49,239 --> 01:17:50,560
to their big roast at the end of the year.

1578
01:17:52,039 --> 01:17:55,359
It goes to a February crawfish get together. Yeah, that's

1579
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,279
that's that's Look. If I look and I know there

1580
01:17:58,279 --> 01:18:02,119
are there are reasons to have an h o because

1581
01:18:02,159 --> 01:18:03,640
if you don't have an ho A, then people can

1582
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:05,640
do it whatever they want with their house. And that's

1583
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:06,319
not good either.

1584
01:18:07,119 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 2: But right for retail prices and stuff like that.

1585
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just for general sanctity in your in your neighborhood,

1586
01:18:12,079 --> 01:18:16,520
But man, are the cans being at my garage really

1587
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,199
causing y'all to lose the value the prettiness of my

1588
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:23,560
neighborhood a lot? There's some crappy ass lawns out there,

1589
01:18:24,199 --> 01:18:27,920
terrible looking Christmas orn' uh decorations out there. That's way

1590
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:29,960
more damage in my neighborhood than having my cans at

1591
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:35,039
my garage. Right, I don't put my I don't put Look,

1592
01:18:35,079 --> 01:18:37,399
we have we have five people living in our house

1593
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,439
right now. We each have ft cars. They have five cars.

1594
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:41,439
I don't put my one of my cars at my

1595
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,439
front lawn. I see that all the time, especially you

1596
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:48,239
Bay town y'all live for that kind of stuff too. Yeah,

1597
01:18:48,319 --> 01:18:49,960
Nack does that all the time. It ain't not gonna

1598
01:18:50,199 --> 01:18:54,680
no laying for that. Yeah, So come on if I don't,

1599
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,720
if I bring my cans to the garage at the door,

1600
01:18:58,079 --> 01:18:59,359
that's not terrible.

1601
01:19:00,039 --> 01:19:01,159
Speaker 3: Let me have my time.

1602
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: Last call for shut your ball mass up. Come on you,

1603
01:19:07,039 --> 01:19:08,960
I know y'all got some ho a crap out there.

1604
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,119
You want to just get off your chest, poor Bryan.

1605
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:15,159
The only one to do is just watch the game outside.

1606
01:19:15,199 --> 01:19:19,359
Beautiful day in the city of Houston. Seven one three

1607
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,479
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1608
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,800
one two five seven ninety Scott with us Online.

1609
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 2: Two.

1610
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:28,159
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna try this. I'm gonna try to

1611
01:19:28,159 --> 01:19:29,640
put you up on the air myself. You know, we

1612
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,279
have the best technology here in the company. I can

1613
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:32,039
argue with that.

1614
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 2: Scott.

1615
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:39,079
Speaker 1: What's the matter with you? Oh Jesus, hi, Scott, how

1616
01:19:39,159 --> 01:19:39,479
you doing?

1617
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:40,079
Speaker 3: How you doing?

1618
01:19:40,239 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm amazing? Thank you for asking?

1619
01:19:43,119 --> 01:19:43,359
Speaker 3: Good?

1620
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 9: Good?

1621
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm just calling about neighbors that don't take their

1622
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:48,960
trash cans inside the garage.

1623
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,359
Speaker 3: I got time for that. Put them in your garage.

1624
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,399
Speaker 1: I don't do it on a regular basis, Scott. I

1625
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,439
just once in a while I forget. I'm not all

1626
01:19:57,479 --> 01:19:58,279
of it perfect life.

1627
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:01,359
Speaker 3: This was this is one directed to too man.

1628
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:02,359
Speaker 4: This is just in general.

1629
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 2: It was directed at me.

1630
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:04,199
Speaker 1: I can live with it.

1631
01:20:04,239 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 2: I can.

1632
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,119
Speaker 1: I'm a big boy. I can handle the criticism. I

1633
01:20:07,279 --> 01:20:10,439
can handle it all. See Scott got to that? Yeah,

1634
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:13,640
I know, but really, nobody got Have you ever driven

1635
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:16,439
by when y'all drive through neighborhoods? Oh do you see

1636
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:17,840
that house on Mulberry Lane?

1637
01:20:18,359 --> 01:20:18,520
Speaker 3: Oh?

1638
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: That guy's got his two cans?

1639
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:20,119
Speaker 4: Uh?

1640
01:20:20,359 --> 01:20:21,279
Speaker 2: Oh that's terrible.

1641
01:20:22,319 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm way more offended by your nineteen ninety seven uh

1642
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,760
Nissan Maximum in your front yard that I am about

1643
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:32,439
your two cans. I'm way more offended by your your

1644
01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:35,600
two thousand and six boat that's got rust all over

1645
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:38,039
it in front of your house. I'm way more offended

1646
01:20:38,079 --> 01:20:41,439
by that. I'm way more offended than you haven't. You

1647
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,479
haven't trimmed your trees, and that's why you gotta call

1648
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:49,520
affordable trees. That's what offends me. The can's not being

1649
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:55,239
in the garage. Yeah, you love grace with me. God,

1650
01:20:55,279 --> 01:20:58,399
I feel so much better now. Chris Meyer is going

1651
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:00,279
to join us in one hour here on Support Talk

1652
01:21:00,359 --> 01:21:03,359
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

1653
01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:06,720
ninety It's funny the little things in life. I've told

1654
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:08,479
you all. If y'all food shamming me, shut your mom

1655
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:11,840
asses up. I feel good about that. You're shaming me

1656
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,000
about not having my my uh, garage cans and my

1657
01:21:15,079 --> 01:21:16,239
garbage cans in my house.

1658
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:19,279
Speaker 3: Is the Matt Thomas Show.

1659
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 2: With Ross twelve or five at h Town. This is

1660
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:29,159
our number three of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

1661
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: Ross's in Los Angeles doing Southern California things, and I'm

1662
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,279
here in Houston with you guys. Hope you guys are

1663
01:21:36,319 --> 01:21:38,760
in any good mood. Ladies as well. We look forward

1664
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,319
to having you a part of the show. Since it's

1665
01:21:40,399 --> 01:21:42,319
me and Jonathan More time for you to come in

1666
01:21:42,399 --> 01:21:44,800
if you want to discuss all things about the local

1667
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,720
sports scene, which will include the Texans getting on the

1668
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,000
practice field for the first time, getting ready for its

1669
01:21:50,039 --> 01:21:51,960
Sunday's game with the Tennessee.

1670
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:53,159
Speaker 2: Titans the Rockets.

1671
01:21:53,439 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 1: All that Today's news at noon. Congratulations. Daneil Hunter named

1672
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:05,039
the AFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance

1673
01:22:05,079 --> 01:22:10,560
against the Jacksonville Jaguars seven tackles, three and a half sacks,

1674
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,960
four tackles for loss, four quarterback hits a forest fumble

1675
01:22:15,239 --> 01:22:18,479
as the Texans beat the Jaguars thirty six to twenty nine.

1676
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,039
It was his first Defensive Player of the Week award

1677
01:22:22,119 --> 01:22:25,520
with the Texans. No word yet on who is on

1678
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:29,359
the practice field yet, and that would include CJ. Stroud

1679
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,920
in concussion protocol, Jalen Peatree, Titus Howard. Those are the

1680
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,199
three main guys. The question is, if you're the Texans,

1681
01:22:36,279 --> 01:22:38,720
do you hold those three guys out this week knowing

1682
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:43,399
it's horrific Tennessee and making sure they're completely ready for

1683
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,279
next Thursday? One week from tomorrow, the Texans will be

1684
01:22:46,319 --> 01:22:49,800
taking on the Buffalo Bills, and what I think should

1685
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:53,199
be a yeah, no, Ross isn't here.

1686
01:22:53,279 --> 01:22:54,159
Speaker 2: It's a must win game.

1687
01:22:55,359 --> 01:22:58,119
Speaker 1: Frankly, they got to go six and two the rest

1688
01:22:58,119 --> 01:22:59,920
of the way, So they got six must wins and

1689
01:23:00,079 --> 01:23:03,279
two need to win. How about that six and two

1690
01:23:03,399 --> 01:23:05,199
gets the Texans at ten and seven. I think it's

1691
01:23:05,239 --> 01:23:06,840
gonna be good enough for them to make the playoffs.

1692
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:12,560
Any short of that, they ain't going so in some respects,

1693
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:15,880
and I'm talking myself into this, Sunday is a must

1694
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:19,000
win because you can't if you've got a harder schedule

1695
01:23:19,079 --> 01:23:22,079
coming up, you can't afford to lose to Tennessee soon'

1696
01:23:22,159 --> 01:23:25,199
go ahead and say it, Ross ain't here. Texans game

1697
01:23:25,239 --> 01:23:29,560
against the Titans, it's a must win. It's a gotta

1698
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:31,119
have one. And guess what they're going.

1699
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:31,399
Speaker 2: To win.

1700
01:23:33,319 --> 01:23:36,399
Speaker 1: If the Texans lose the Titans on Sunday. Let's close

1701
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:40,279
up shop, all you battle reds and you deep steal

1702
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:44,399
dudes and you Texans traveling Texans weirdos. I'll just got

1703
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:47,960
cancel all your trips, don't go anywhere else, be done

1704
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,800
with it. Your season's over. But it's not an issue.

1705
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:52,640
They're winning in Tennessee, and as I said a couple

1706
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,479
days ago, they're winning by more than ten points. Rockets

1707
01:23:56,520 --> 01:24:01,279
are home tonight for the Washington Wizards. Dunksu're not uniforms

1708
01:24:01,319 --> 01:24:04,399
are in play. Those are always very cool. Rockets are

1709
01:24:04,399 --> 01:24:08,279
gonna take on the worst defense in the NBA, the

1710
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:11,119
worst and they're all sticking. By the way, the worst

1711
01:24:11,159 --> 01:24:13,520
team in the nf in the NBA, the Wizards, who

1712
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:17,399
have won victory so far this year. And uh, that'll

1713
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,159
be a seven o'clock tip time over on our sister station,

1714
01:24:20,319 --> 01:24:23,560
news radio seven forty KTRH. We'll start everything off at

1715
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:28,399
six thirty with the network pregame. What else anything else

1716
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:29,159
going on here?

1717
01:24:29,279 --> 01:24:30,119
Speaker 2: Let's see.

1718
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 1: Nope, can't think anything else. Oh, Nico Harris is still fired,

1719
01:24:40,399 --> 01:24:43,520
by the way. You know, do you think Jonathan, they

1720
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:45,399
should go up the next time the Mavericks have a

1721
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:50,800
home game, they should change their chance to fired. Nico's

1722
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:53,119
like a celebration shock, kind of a like we did this,

1723
01:24:53,319 --> 01:24:54,039
we did this together.

1724
01:24:55,399 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be kind of that'd be kind of nice.

1725
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,000
That might that might rally some some fan sperit.

1726
01:24:59,239 --> 01:25:01,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call my I'm gonna call my shot and

1727
01:25:01,319 --> 01:25:04,000
say that next time the Mavericks have a home game,

1728
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:08,840
they're gonna chant fired Nico, because if there's an ever

1729
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,079
an example of of the fan base doing it to

1730
01:25:12,199 --> 01:25:16,840
a team, it's definitely them. Mavericks, by the way, are

1731
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:21,520
a very disappointing start of the season. I hate it not. Mavericks,

1732
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:24,359
by the way, are the second worst recon in the

1733
01:25:24,399 --> 01:25:28,680
Western Conference at three and eight. I don't look like going, yeah,

1734
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:33,600
that's christ downfall. They're home for Phoenix tonight. By the way,

1735
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,520
if you've not heard former Rocket Jayalen Green out several

1736
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:40,600
weeks with a bad hamstring, Warriors are at the Spurs

1737
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:43,640
tonight and I'm standing to watching and it's the sickness

1738
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,680
I have on any therapy, but I'll say, let's go Warriors.

1739
01:25:47,199 --> 01:25:48,920
And I even it makes me sick to my stomach

1740
01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:52,359
to say that we want the Warriors to win, and

1741
01:25:52,439 --> 01:25:55,000
frankly with the Mavericks to win, because we don't. We

1742
01:25:55,079 --> 01:25:56,960
want the Rockets to keep that top four spot in

1743
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,520
the Western Conference. Rockets right now again, only nine games

1744
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:01,880
in the season, You're like, man, get a life. They're

1745
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:03,520
six and three. They'd be taking on the Lakers in

1746
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:04,840
the first round of the playoffs and the start of

1747
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:07,920
the day, but then it'll start till like April God,

1748
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:09,920
what's wrong with me? That's why I need you, guys.

1749
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:12,560
That's what I do when I'm here by myself. Ross

1750
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,119
keeps me in check. Jonathan's busy trying to keep us

1751
01:26:15,159 --> 01:26:18,439
on the air. I'm sitting here standing. I got a problem.

1752
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:21,920
I'm worried about the Rockets nine games in the season.

1753
01:26:22,159 --> 01:26:27,199
Not worried, but looking so worried. Not worried, that's just like, uh,

1754
01:26:27,399 --> 01:26:30,960
you know, I'm talking about playoff seedings. I need you.

1755
01:26:32,239 --> 01:26:36,600
I got issues. Maybe I started smoking during the show.

1756
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,760
We can't bring it. We can't bring that in the office.

1757
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:41,359
I don't think forget what I said. That was a

1758
01:26:41,399 --> 01:26:50,199
bad idea. That's the news at noon. I'm just excited

1759
01:26:50,199 --> 01:26:53,039
about the Rockets. I want to see where this thing goes.

1760
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:56,840
I want to see where this thing goes, and if

1761
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:59,319
re Chepher can play the majority of the season like

1762
01:26:59,359 --> 01:27:00,800
he played the last three games of the Rockets and

1763
01:27:01,079 --> 01:27:03,640
on the most recent road trip, Rockets are going to

1764
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:07,159
have their point guard situation not rectified, but feeling a

1765
01:27:07,199 --> 01:27:09,720
lot better than they did before the start of the season.

1766
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,079
You do, miss Fred. It's funny. Every one of the

1767
01:27:13,159 --> 01:27:14,479
radio shows I've been on the last week or so,

1768
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,279
talking about the Rockets are like being yell miss Fred.

1769
01:27:16,319 --> 01:27:18,399
I'm like, yeah, Fred is missed. He'll be missed all

1770
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:21,039
season long. It's so funny because a lot of you

1771
01:27:21,159 --> 01:27:22,880
were not the biggest Fred fans during the course of

1772
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,720
the season last year, but you miss him now. And yeah,

1773
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:28,680
I mean he is to stability. That's why, as I

1774
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,640
said before to other folks, the turnover count for the

1775
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:32,199
Rockets is going to be high this year. It's just

1776
01:27:32,359 --> 01:27:35,720
going to be seven one three two one two five

1777
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:39,600
seven ninety seven one three two, one two five seven

1778
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:44,439
ninety Brent with his on seventy high Brant, Well, of course,

1779
01:27:44,439 --> 01:27:46,279
I'm trying to put this on and that's not working.

1780
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 4: Hi, Brent, oh way man uh about that? I think

1781
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:54,159
you just told a little bit of my thunder. I

1782
01:27:54,159 --> 01:27:56,680
didn't catch the first part of the show, but the

1783
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,720
Rockets agree, Shepherd, the ball movement wasn't that great, and

1784
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,760
I was greeting with everybody another team that's times a jail.

1785
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:04,680
It seemed like they were doing a good job moving

1786
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:07,800
the ball around. Yeah, I'm surprised to say that that

1787
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:10,720
you were disappointed in something and I didn't catch what

1788
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:15,359
it was. You just turnovers. Yeah, and you just mentioned

1789
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:17,720
Chipper and I thought he's the kid had been doing great.

1790
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,279
Are better with the Bob movement?

1791
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:21,199
Speaker 9: I don't.

1792
01:28:21,199 --> 01:28:23,039
Speaker 4: I still don't think the team is there, especially when

1793
01:28:23,039 --> 01:28:26,119
they get tired of moving around. But without the ball, Uh,

1794
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:28,600
there's obviously work to be done, you know, as the

1795
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:32,359
team goes on and the team needs the jail perhaps

1796
01:28:34,039 --> 01:28:37,319
do you know what they're working on them immediately detect this.

1797
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,560
Speaker 1: Or no, there's nothing they're working. There's nothing working anything

1798
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,359
immediate there. They want to see how this team turns out,

1799
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:48,920
probably till the trade deadline. But they they would like,

1800
01:28:49,159 --> 01:28:50,920
they would like for this team not to have any

1801
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:52,800
massive moves. They don't have any wigger room to begin with.

1802
01:28:53,199 --> 01:28:54,760
And second one, they love their team as it is

1803
01:28:55,359 --> 01:28:58,399
now you're just gonna have. You don't have a prototypical

1804
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:01,199
point guard that plays major minutes, Fred van believe. As

1805
01:29:01,239 --> 01:29:03,199
you know, Brent played thirty five minutes a night and

1806
01:29:03,359 --> 01:29:05,239
he didn't turn the ball over, and so you just

1807
01:29:05,279 --> 01:29:08,239
had nobody that could replace him. You know, Alprin does

1808
01:29:08,239 --> 01:29:10,079
a pretty decent job of ball handling for a big

1809
01:29:10,159 --> 01:29:13,399
man men. Thompson does as well, but those guys are

1810
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:15,840
taller guys. That are not the true definition of point guards,

1811
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:17,439
and thus you're gonna run in some issues with some

1812
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:18,479
higher turnover counts.

1813
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:20,119
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1814
01:29:21,039 --> 01:29:22,560
Speaker 4: Also, I feel like they're holding the ball for a

1815
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:24,840
long time and maybe they give the other team time

1816
01:29:24,920 --> 01:29:26,800
to swarm or figure out what they're doing. You know,

1817
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:29,560
Katie's played a lot of minutes. It seems like when

1818
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:32,760
he gets tired, he's flowed down, just stops and I

1819
01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:34,720
don't know, if help's not coming fast enough.

1820
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:36,600
Speaker 1: Help us not coming fast That's exactly what it is.

1821
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:39,760
Help's not coming fast enough. But when that double team comes,

1822
01:29:40,159 --> 01:29:42,279
that's gotta be on Kadi to get rid of the

1823
01:29:42,319 --> 01:29:43,359
ball as soon as it gets there.

1824
01:29:44,119 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 2: He sometimes tries to wiggle around it.

1825
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:47,600
Speaker 1: But other than that, I mean, if that's the biggest

1826
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,439
flaw on Katie's game right now, is not getting on

1827
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:50,880
the double team fast enough. I mean, look what the

1828
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:53,119
numbers he's putting up so far this season with all

1829
01:29:53,119 --> 01:29:54,760
the double teams he's ever attract to begin with.

1830
01:29:56,159 --> 01:29:58,640
Speaker 4: No, I mean it seemed like early on in the

1831
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:00,760
season in the games that couldn't watch a lot of

1832
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:03,479
times to listen to you because they couldn't watch, Uh

1833
01:30:04,079 --> 01:30:07,239
Kadi or at got double team you know, they dished

1834
01:30:07,279 --> 01:30:09,520
the ball and they were diving from the rim. So

1835
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:12,279
I don't know why that's not until the plans. But

1836
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:15,199
my gosh, if there's gonna be two automatic double team

1837
01:30:16,159 --> 01:30:18,760
with players on the court, why not take advantage of that?

1838
01:30:19,199 --> 01:30:21,520
I don't I don't know, of course, I don't know

1839
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,960
a lot of things. There was nothing else, but uh,

1840
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:27,119
I think that's gonna be a great show man.

1841
01:30:27,199 --> 01:30:29,399
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank hey tonight.

1842
01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 4: So if they've been allowed the team to play against,

1843
01:30:32,119 --> 01:30:35,119
are they gonna get any any practice out of this

1844
01:30:35,359 --> 01:30:36,720
or is it just gonna be a bunch of one

1845
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:39,399
on one and people down and are stunting?

1846
01:30:40,399 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 1: Washington doesn't play any defense? They are they are giving up.

1847
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,119
I mean they're awful. I mean, first of all, they're

1848
01:30:46,119 --> 01:30:48,920
a terrible team, have always been, but they're really bad defensively.

1849
01:30:49,159 --> 01:30:53,199
They've given up like Cade Cunningham shot forty five times

1850
01:30:53,239 --> 01:30:54,840
against them the other night in one game.

1851
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 4: That's a lot. I mean, it's just gonna be meaning

1852
01:31:00,079 --> 01:31:03,079
well practice or is this going to be just almost

1853
01:31:03,159 --> 01:31:06,079
almost trash time working on the bull?

1854
01:31:06,159 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 1: But you know, no, they will they will hopefully comfortably

1855
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:12,520
have a big lead in the game and get some

1856
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,119
guys that don't normally get to play some minutes because

1857
01:31:15,319 --> 01:31:16,600
you know the schedule is going to start to get

1858
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,359
more difficult here. We've had a lot of off days

1859
01:31:18,399 --> 01:31:20,319
in between games, and that eventually will come up and

1860
01:31:20,399 --> 01:31:22,520
bite them because there'll be some back to backs in

1861
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:24,319
three games in five days kind of stuff coming up

1862
01:31:24,359 --> 01:31:29,720
soon enough. Right, Thank you, Bran, appreciate it.

1863
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:30,159
Speaker 4: I like that.

1864
01:31:31,279 --> 01:31:34,079
Speaker 1: And Gordy got our phone line system fixed. You tell

1865
01:31:34,119 --> 01:31:36,119
Gordy Johnathy, tell Gordy how many likes I got in

1866
01:31:36,199 --> 01:31:37,800
there and how many views I got in my on

1867
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:42,720
his post. Nobody cares. Everybody cares. Everybody's loving it. Everybody's

1868
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:44,920
loving it. I'll have one hundred, one hundred and thirty

1869
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:48,279
thousand views. But Cody here that one hundred and thirty

1870
01:31:48,359 --> 01:31:51,520
thousand views on your joke. I'm taking the credit for

1871
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:56,880
your joke. Allegedly twelve fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1872
01:31:57,159 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 2: He's hating this. It was a joke, folks, relaxed. What

1873
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:00,520
he say says.

1874
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:05,439
Speaker 1: When you're supposed to put funy emojis out there, you

1875
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:08,159
gotta apologize on Friday. I'm not he needs to apologize

1876
01:32:08,159 --> 01:32:09,079
for his horrific take.

1877
01:32:09,319 --> 01:32:11,520
Speaker 5: One guy got the joke. He just he just tweeted

1878
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,640
at me. It's a judge Judy college football style.

1879
01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:14,800
Speaker 2: He gets it. It's a joke.

1880
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:16,640
Speaker 1: Okay, one person of how many people are on Twitter,

1881
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:20,520
like forty million U twelve sixteen, the Matt Tealvi's show

1882
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,680
withdraw seven one three two one two five seven eties

1883
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:25,520
so believe it or not?

1884
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:27,039
Speaker 2: Today again he is going to.

1885
01:32:27,039 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 1: Be famous television series groups and you got to decide

1886
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,479
whether they're alive or not. And you can't ask Johnthan

1887
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:38,880
because he doesn't know what any of these people are

1888
01:32:39,119 --> 01:32:42,199
not not one. I might know one person with things

1889
01:32:42,239 --> 01:32:42,720
coming does it?

1890
01:32:43,199 --> 01:32:43,239
Speaker 11: No?

1891
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:50,600
Speaker 1: No, no, you don't know, by the way. Uh I

1892
01:32:51,039 --> 01:32:53,279
tell you this all the time, Jonathan. And it's a again.

1893
01:32:53,279 --> 01:32:55,359
I got many illnesses in my life I gotta fix.

1894
01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1895
01:32:56,199 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: One of them is checking my for you tab during

1896
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,279
the break. There are some many people that are filming

1897
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:05,560
videos with sports commentary or life commentary in their cars.

1898
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:10,039
Speaker 2: Really, why are we doing this? I have I've not

1899
01:33:10,119 --> 01:33:12,600
seen that. That's crazy. That's kinda That's what I talked

1900
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:13,880
to you about that. I said, I don't get it

1901
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,079
with all this unprofessionalism, all these zoom calls on broadcasts.

1902
01:33:17,079 --> 01:33:19,520
It's just I don't know. I feel like sports journalism

1903
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:20,039
is just gone.

1904
01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:22,880
Speaker 1: Well, it's not journalism, it's just commentary. I mean, I

1905
01:33:23,159 --> 01:33:27,039
guess the issue is, well, because here's I don't ever

1906
01:33:27,119 --> 01:33:29,039
film anything in my house because I'm always afraid you

1907
01:33:29,079 --> 01:33:30,239
guys are gonna make fun of my house.

1908
01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:32,399
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense.

1909
01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean I get like, hey, your windows need to

1910
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:39,359
be washed, or hey, what what kind of goofy chair

1911
01:33:39,399 --> 01:33:41,640
you sitting in? Or if you do it in your car,

1912
01:33:43,039 --> 01:33:45,439
it's just you sitting in either the passenger seat or

1913
01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:47,199
in the driver's seat. You got a wheel. You can't

1914
01:33:47,199 --> 01:33:49,920
really unless you're like hoarding stuff in the back of

1915
01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:51,760
your car. You can't make fun of your type of vehicle,

1916
01:33:51,840 --> 01:33:52,760
what you're driving, right.

1917
01:33:54,359 --> 01:33:54,520
Speaker 3: Right.

1918
01:33:57,239 --> 01:33:59,399
Speaker 1: I've told this before. I'm thinking about starting to do

1919
01:33:59,479 --> 01:34:01,439
a daily what what's going on in my brain as

1920
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:03,560
I drive? But I don't want to do that because

1921
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:07,279
it would be full of swear words and profanities and ugliness.

1922
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,760
Speaker 2: Then, but obviously get another real mets. Oh, they know

1923
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:12,279
who they If you meet me, af Air, you know

1924
01:34:12,359 --> 01:34:14,640
who they realize exactly, So they wouldn't they would. I

1925
01:34:14,640 --> 01:34:15,279
think they would enjoy it.

1926
01:34:15,319 --> 01:34:15,640
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1927
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:17,359
Speaker 1: I got to keep a I gotta keep a certain

1928
01:34:17,399 --> 01:34:18,239
public image up.

1929
01:34:19,319 --> 01:34:19,560
Speaker 3: I don't.

1930
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,079
Speaker 1: I don't usually swear in public. I do, but I

1931
01:34:22,199 --> 01:34:26,880
just don't do it near y'all. I mean, everybody's shooting there.

1932
01:34:27,039 --> 01:34:29,520
They're like sports commentary. Hey, I think this is what

1933
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,760
the Dodgers should do in for agency or Hey. I

1934
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,279
wouldn't be surprised if LSU goes after the you know what,

1935
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:37,880
go in to the studio, go knock a sixty second

1936
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:41,279
video out. Now, why are you doing your car unless

1937
01:34:41,359 --> 01:34:43,720
you're humble bragging how great your car is. But my

1938
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:45,640
guess is if you are shooting video in your car,

1939
01:34:46,039 --> 01:34:48,279
you're probably doing it as you're driving, which is not safe.

1940
01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:51,720
Speaker 2: The josh off that nice g wagon or that you know.

1941
01:34:52,279 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: No, but I can't tell these people what kind of

1942
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,560
cars these people have. That's the thing is, if you're

1943
01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:57,560
gonna do in your car, you might as well humble

1944
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:57,880
brag what.

1945
01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:01,600
Speaker 2: You got, right, No, I actually get some of the

1946
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:03,239
little sparkling lights and you're your ceiling.

1947
01:35:03,279 --> 01:35:05,039
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all right now. If there is

1948
01:35:05,119 --> 01:35:07,560
an automobile dealership out there that would like me to

1949
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:10,720
read their commercials and talk about how great their dealership is.

1950
01:35:11,199 --> 01:35:16,039
I'll do videos in your car. That's all I'm gonna

1951
01:35:16,039 --> 01:35:18,039
tell I'm putting out there right now. So if you're

1952
01:35:18,039 --> 01:35:20,920
a sales manager of a dealership, or you're an employee

1953
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:22,720
of a dealership, like, hey, I want the Matt Thomas show.

1954
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:25,199
I want with Ross. I want matth to be speaking

1955
01:35:25,239 --> 01:35:27,600
about how great mark our dealership is. I'll go in

1956
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:29,039
the damn car and to shoot a video that way.

1957
01:35:29,079 --> 01:35:31,319
I've never done it before, but I'll do it right now,

1958
01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:33,560
not like this exact moment, but i'll do down the road.

1959
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:36,239
Speaker 2: Have you that work for a dealership, let's go.

1960
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:40,680
Speaker 1: I'll break a trend to show you that I'm just

1961
01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:42,840
I'm gonna join the rest of the collaboration out there

1962
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:45,840
of creating all this online content in my my phone

1963
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:47,840
in the car, and I won't do all I'm driving.

1964
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:51,920
I'll do it safely. That's the mark I make for y'all.

1965
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:55,520
Twelve twenty five on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one

1966
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:58,199
three two one two five seven ninety. If you want

1967
01:35:58,199 --> 01:36:00,319
to chime in seven one three two one two five

1968
01:36:00,399 --> 01:36:02,439
seven ninety, it was kind of nice having that call

1969
01:36:02,720 --> 01:36:06,960
John that comment about the Rockets A minute ago. You know,

1970
01:36:07,079 --> 01:36:09,199
there's so many people that still believe the NBA season

1971
01:36:09,239 --> 01:36:10,159
going to start till December.

1972
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:12,199
Speaker 2: I thought that way.

1973
01:36:12,279 --> 01:36:14,319
Speaker 1: I don't what kind of do to shake you of that?

1974
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:15,359
Is there anything I can do?

1975
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:15,720
Speaker 3: Well?

1976
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 2: You know, honestly, the playing tournament kind of gets me

1977
01:36:18,039 --> 01:36:20,319
a little more interested to see you like, when when

1978
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:21,560
is that? But that doesn't happen till what.

1979
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:23,399
Speaker 1: Well, we've had one playing game so far. That was

1980
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:23,960
last Friday.

1981
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was Spurs, right, So yeah, that kind of

1982
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:27,520
I turned I tuned in on that because that kind

1983
01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:29,000
of gives me like you were trying to see how

1984
01:36:29,119 --> 01:36:31,199
crazy the floor was looking one weren't you one?

1985
01:36:31,319 --> 01:36:33,680
Speaker 1: Yes, because I actually like the courts and the playoffs,

1986
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,119
but the plan tent. But I you know, I think

1987
01:36:36,199 --> 01:36:38,439
the playing team is really a good indicator of what's

1988
01:36:38,479 --> 01:36:39,479
going to happen in post season.

1989
01:36:40,159 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 2: The last couple of years has been kind.

1990
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 1: Of well, Oklahoma City didn't win it, so yeah, and Houston.

1991
01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:48,119
Speaker 2: Went far uh except for the one time Milwaukee went

1992
01:36:48,279 --> 01:36:50,439
and you know, Dame went crazy. But I mean, but

1993
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:52,560
I think it's really good telling you, like what team's

1994
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:54,279
already polished early on the season. We got to look

1995
01:36:54,319 --> 01:36:55,640
up for and stuff like that. I would like it.

1996
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:59,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, the reality to me is, uh, I can probably

1997
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:02,479
try to fight this battle, but I'm gonna lose every

1998
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:05,279
time because the reality is we still got a lot

1999
01:37:05,319 --> 01:37:06,199
of college football left.

2000
01:37:06,199 --> 01:37:07,359
Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of college We got what.

2001
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:12,520
Speaker 1: Four more weeks because the Cougars are off this week

2002
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:15,880
and they've got TCU and Baylor, and then the weekend

2003
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,439
after that is the college football Championship, you know, the

2004
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,640
conference championship weekend, and then you get the bowl season

2005
01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:25,560
after that. NFL still got what about a thirty percent

2006
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:27,479
left to go in the season. There, thirty five forty.

2007
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:28,000
Speaker 3: Something like that.

2008
01:37:28,399 --> 01:37:29,119
Speaker 2: A month and a half.

2009
01:37:29,319 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.

2010
01:37:30,039 --> 01:37:30,479
Speaker 2: It's about so.

2011
01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:32,560
Speaker 1: And there's no more BI weeks. A few teams have

2012
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:35,600
got BI weeks, but not many. All those goofy international

2013
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:39,920
games are gone. You know I feel bad for is

2014
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:40,800
college basketball?

2015
01:37:42,239 --> 01:37:42,479
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2016
01:37:43,199 --> 01:37:47,239
Speaker 1: I mean there were like fifteen college basketball games on

2017
01:37:47,399 --> 01:37:49,880
last night, and I was curious if anybody was watching

2018
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:51,359
and Houston was watching any of them.

2019
01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:52,479
Speaker 2: I wasn't none of that.

2020
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 1: I did have Texas Tech ONLLOI on for a little

2021
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:59,239
bit because the NBC NBA game last night was Boston

2022
01:37:59,239 --> 01:38:02,319
Philadelphia didn't do much for me. I love the Western

2023
01:38:02,359 --> 01:38:04,039
Conference because I'm always think about where the Rockets are

2024
01:38:04,079 --> 01:38:06,680
gonna be and who they could eventually play, and ended

2025
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:08,960
up in competing with Boston Field.

2026
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:09,119
Speaker 2: Alf.

2027
01:38:09,159 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything for me. I mean, if you're

2028
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:12,720
a if you're an NBA historian, you love those old

2029
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:18,079
series matchups. But uh, I don't know if Jalen Brown

2030
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:19,720
is going to move the needle for you.

2031
01:38:20,159 --> 01:38:22,520
Speaker 2: You know, well, I think college men's college basketball like

2032
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,199
this last years women's college basketball because Kaylyn Clark and

2033
01:38:25,239 --> 01:38:28,239
Angel Reeves right like, but I feel like men's we

2034
01:38:28,359 --> 01:38:30,840
haven't had that star, like someone to tune into since

2035
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:34,520
like che Or Suggs with Gonzaga or like even but those.

2036
01:38:34,399 --> 01:38:36,399
Speaker 1: Guys didn't even I mean things about the number one

2037
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:39,520
star in the NBA of them when the youth, well,

2038
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:41,439
those thing about the youngest stars that are the most

2039
01:38:42,199 --> 01:38:45,439
the future of the NBA didn't play a lick at college,

2040
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:48,000
when min Yama didn't play a lick at college, Luca

2041
01:38:48,039 --> 01:38:51,199
didn't play a a lick at college, and those other

2042
01:38:51,239 --> 01:38:53,239
guys that are the like first, second, third time third

2043
01:38:53,279 --> 01:38:55,399
picks overall, I mean, you got you had the I

2044
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:57,960
mean men Thompson Rocket Star didn't play in college.

2045
01:38:58,000 --> 01:38:58,640
Speaker 2: Yeah he didn't play.

2046
01:38:58,680 --> 01:38:58,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2047
01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:00,439
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys are one year and done.

2048
01:39:02,039 --> 01:39:04,159
So it's just it's kind of hard to invest in

2049
01:39:04,279 --> 01:39:07,000
men's like we don't even when Zion was there, like

2050
01:39:07,399 --> 01:39:08,840
you already knew it was just one year, and yeah,

2051
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:10,479
Cooper Flag, you knew he was gonna be done after

2052
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,239
that one year, like you know. So I guess the

2053
01:39:12,359 --> 01:39:14,880
only reason why you would invest is if you if

2054
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:17,960
you were able to associate those guys with those teams

2055
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,319
for a long period of time. But even if you

2056
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:27,119
had players that stuck around for several years, unless you're

2057
01:39:27,119 --> 01:39:29,279
a fan of that school, I don't even know if

2058
01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:33,079
if if if Texas Tech had nine seniors on their team,

2059
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:35,159
all of a sudden, America be like, man, that Text

2060
01:39:35,199 --> 01:39:37,159
Tech team is going to be pretty good. Yeah, because

2061
01:39:37,199 --> 01:39:39,239
only and this is no bias. The only team that's

2062
01:39:39,319 --> 01:39:40,880
like that right now is the Cougar is like, that's

2063
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:42,239
the only thing we have. But they're gonna have two,

2064
01:39:42,239 --> 01:39:44,119
probably two players leaving to go after the first year

2065
01:39:44,159 --> 01:39:44,680
in Houston.

2066
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:45,359
Speaker 2: I mean that's true.

2067
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 1: When you start grabbing these top five national recruiting list

2068
01:39:52,600 --> 01:39:54,680
and then people think that you're gonna be in number

2069
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:57,039
one recruiting class, you're recruiting for a year.

2070
01:39:59,680 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

2071
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:03,079
Speaker 1: And I've met even smaller D one basketall players. They

2072
01:40:03,119 --> 01:40:05,319
have that same mindset, like if it's not good season,

2073
01:40:05,319 --> 01:40:06,159
I'm transferring them out.

2074
01:40:06,199 --> 01:40:06,840
Speaker 2: That's right, you know.

2075
01:40:07,119 --> 01:40:10,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I So even though I bit you complained

2076
01:40:10,359 --> 01:40:12,840
about the fact that I wish we had more Houstonians

2077
01:40:13,119 --> 01:40:14,880
buying in on the rocket stuff because it's gonna be

2078
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:18,039
a fun season, I think I mean, you got you

2079
01:40:18,119 --> 01:40:21,039
got a megastar here. You got other rising stars, but

2080
01:40:21,119 --> 01:40:23,039
you got the mega. You got a mega star in

2081
01:40:23,079 --> 01:40:26,960
your wearing your gear bragging about his age town uniform tonight,

2082
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:33,520
the dunction on it on his thigh. College basketball, y'all

2083
01:40:33,520 --> 01:40:35,199
will take a real back seat will come to you

2084
01:40:35,279 --> 01:40:38,039
in March. Don't worry. Seven one three two one two

2085
01:40:38,279 --> 01:40:41,640
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

2086
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:44,680
seven ninety Joe A. Spotta was on Astroline last night.

2087
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:47,119
Some of the highlights of that is up next twelve

2088
01:40:47,239 --> 01:40:51,600
thirty here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. For

2089
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,319
those of you that need to know this that Astraline

2090
01:40:54,439 --> 01:40:56,600
is the off season show for the Astros and they

2091
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,039
do it once a week. It's between six o'clock and seven,

2092
01:40:59,119 --> 01:41:03,039
and the day's rotate because of the rocket schedule. So

2093
01:41:03,359 --> 01:41:05,720
last night was their opportunity on the Astros network and

2094
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:08,520
I believe that it was hosted by Todd Kallis. Joe

2095
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:11,319
Aspotta was the guest last night and there were some

2096
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:15,239
conversation pieces discussed about what's going to happen for twenty

2097
01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:18,479
twenty six. Of course, we are your proud home of

2098
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:20,479
the Astros and cannot wait to get into a deep

2099
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:23,279
dive of what to do with the local nine. And

2100
01:41:25,119 --> 01:41:26,960
I would have to say, and we'll go to a

2101
01:41:27,039 --> 01:41:30,760
spot of six on this that Joe Aspotta is ready

2102
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:34,800
to see this team work on improving the overall pitching staff.

2103
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 7: We feel good about what we have, but for us

2104
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,439
to protect the pieces that we have in place, the

2105
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:45,840
Hunter Browns, Christine Xavier, the Spencer, Araghatti, all those guys

2106
01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:50,279
are we need more just to help them out throughout

2107
01:41:50,319 --> 01:41:53,199
the season and being able to have a six men

2108
01:41:53,319 --> 01:41:56,880
rotation at some point right and have our young pitchers

2109
01:41:56,920 --> 01:42:00,079
who are very closely joining our rotation, just to make

2110
01:42:00,119 --> 01:42:02,199
sure that we give him enough time for them to

2111
01:42:02,319 --> 01:42:04,760
develop in the Mount of leagues and not rush him

2112
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:06,199
to the big leagues. There's a lot of things that

2113
01:42:06,279 --> 01:42:09,479
we can control, obviously, but one thing that we learned

2114
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:12,640
this year was that, you know, at some point someone

2115
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:15,039
from Double A might need to come up here, or

2116
01:42:15,079 --> 01:42:18,399
maybe someone who we were not counting on till maybe

2117
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,159
July October might you know, they might have to come

2118
01:42:21,199 --> 01:42:23,960
in May. Hopefully that doesn't happen, but we have to

2119
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:26,279
prepare ourselves to make sure that we that we have

2120
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:29,319
enough that we could we could let our young kids

2121
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:31,479
just develop and be ready to come here and help

2122
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:32,680
us at the right time.

2123
01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:33,720
Speaker 2: So it's something to me.

2124
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:36,039
Speaker 1: He wants to spend some money on some veteran arms

2125
01:42:36,119 --> 01:42:41,119
or at least acquire one through trade. Dylan sees that

2126
01:42:41,159 --> 01:42:44,279
the name has been brought up quite a bit, and.

2127
01:42:49,279 --> 01:42:52,680
Speaker 3: Here's the look.

2128
01:42:53,199 --> 01:42:55,239
Speaker 1: He was a guy that was on the Astros radar

2129
01:42:56,239 --> 01:43:02,680
as a trade deadline. I know that sometimes when the

2130
01:43:02,840 --> 01:43:07,119
when a player gets an affinity by a general manager

2131
01:43:07,319 --> 01:43:10,439
or a manager or an owner, that they don't give

2132
01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:15,600
up on certain things, and maybe that's exactly what the

2133
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,039
Astros are doing. Is that Dylancy's could have been a

2134
01:43:18,119 --> 01:43:23,079
guy that could have been an Astro at the trade deadline,

2135
01:43:23,199 --> 01:43:29,920
they decided to opt not to do so. But maybe

2136
01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:31,439
it's out of maybe it's out of the astro's hand.

2137
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:32,720
Maybe it's out of that just out of the Astros.

2138
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:34,720
Maybe it's out of your hands to say, hey, don't

2139
01:43:34,760 --> 01:43:38,960
spend that money. Dylancis comes here all of a sudden,

2140
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:42,560
you're thinking, this is an unbelievable opportunity for the Astros

2141
01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:46,640
to improve their starting rotation. I think justin Verlander as

2142
01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:51,840
a four or five fits. I'm just really worried that

2143
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:55,239
you'd be paying overpaying for him. And look, it's not

2144
01:43:55,399 --> 01:44:01,840
my situation. It's it's it's not my move to tell

2145
01:44:02,159 --> 01:44:05,359
how the Astros are how to spend their money. But

2146
01:44:07,520 --> 01:44:11,279
your owner likes to make some splashy hires as long

2147
01:44:11,359 --> 01:44:13,600
as they don't go outside of the range of you know,

2148
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:16,399
the five or six years that you know some of

2149
01:44:16,439 --> 01:44:20,920
these mega guys would want. I don't think Farmer Valdad

2150
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:23,560
is coming back, so that's money that's coming off the books.

2151
01:44:24,159 --> 01:44:26,079
I know the Dylan Cese has been brought up in

2152
01:44:26,159 --> 01:44:32,319
as a conversation. Ranger Souarez twelve and eight last year,

2153
01:44:32,399 --> 01:44:34,520
with an e are of three point two zero would

2154
01:44:34,520 --> 01:44:35,680
be a guy that you could also think.

2155
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:36,159
Speaker 2: About as well.

2156
01:44:38,479 --> 01:44:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm just nervous that if you overspend, does that hamper

2157
01:44:42,920 --> 01:44:47,039
your thoughts to taking care of Hunter Brown? And for me,

2158
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:51,640
Hunter Brown in getting him locked in maybe buying out

2159
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:55,199
some arbitration years is as important to me as anything

2160
01:44:55,239 --> 01:44:59,439
else the Astros could do this offseason. Agree or disagree

2161
01:45:00,039 --> 01:45:02,960
seven one three, two, one two, five seven ninety. Now,

2162
01:45:03,039 --> 01:45:05,399
one guy that did sign in the off season was

2163
01:45:05,560 --> 01:45:09,399
Nate Pearson. Here's a spot talking about the acquisition of

2164
01:45:09,560 --> 01:45:11,680
Nate Pearson in first of all, for them most of you,

2165
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:13,000
who the hell's Nate Pearson?

2166
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:20,680
Speaker 7: Cut number seven? Here is a spot on Nate Pearson.

2167
01:45:21,399 --> 01:45:26,079
It's a big arm. And one thing that we've always

2168
01:45:26,159 --> 01:45:30,840
done a really good job is seeing the value and

2169
01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:33,800
the strength of pictures throughout the organ and all the organizations,

2170
01:45:33,880 --> 01:45:36,840
right and and and we see those strengths and we

2171
01:45:37,079 --> 01:45:40,600
maximize their strength. We we see things that we can fix,

2172
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:43,840
we can you know, allow this picture to develop their

2173
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:47,439
strength in many different ways, and and we do that

2174
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:51,159
better than any organization at the major league level. So, uh,

2175
01:45:51,239 --> 01:45:53,279
Pierce is one of those guys where we really like

2176
01:45:53,359 --> 01:45:57,159
the arm. We see him as a starter, and you know,

2177
01:45:57,239 --> 01:45:59,680
it's an arm that also has work and out of relief.

2178
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:03,640
So so we liked bringing him into camp. We're going

2179
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,560
to go down the path of being a starter. We

2180
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:08,840
We've talked to him a few times. He's excited to

2181
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:12,039
joining the organization. So he's going to be in the

2182
01:46:12,119 --> 01:46:14,520
mix and I'm really excited about him. And we got

2183
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:16,880
more ideas coming. So it's going to be a fun

2184
01:46:16,920 --> 01:46:17,640
off season.

2185
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:19,800
Speaker 3: All right.

2186
01:46:20,239 --> 01:46:23,560
Speaker 1: Is that lip service or is he giving a precursor

2187
01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:26,279
to what could be his term a fun off season.

2188
01:46:28,039 --> 01:46:30,119
One thing also Joe brought up, which is interesting to me,

2189
01:46:30,359 --> 01:46:32,279
is he wants to make sure he's got as many

2190
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:35,760
high leverage guys. Is he really possible At some point.

2191
01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:38,399
Speaker 2: In the season there is need for that.

2192
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:42,199
Speaker 7: But we find out guys like the Brian King that

2193
01:46:42,319 --> 01:46:44,359
could be that guy in the seven that maybe I

2194
01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:47,239
could bring in and give a Briill a clean eighth,

2195
01:46:47,399 --> 01:46:49,560
and I could do the same thing in d eighth

2196
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:52,159
for a Briills, I could give Hater a clean ninth.

2197
01:46:53,319 --> 01:46:55,359
Those are the guys, Those are the pieces that we

2198
01:46:55,520 --> 01:46:58,760
are really focusing in right now. I think blue Ball

2199
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:01,760
was you know, can be Murray did it for us.

2200
01:47:02,159 --> 01:47:04,920
These are these are these are arms that did it

2201
01:47:05,039 --> 01:47:07,159
for us, and we would like to continue to develop

2202
01:47:07,239 --> 01:47:10,760
these guys, so I feel comfortable enough to give them

2203
01:47:11,159 --> 01:47:14,319
giving the base, giving the ball in high lever situation

2204
01:47:15,079 --> 01:47:16,600
that we don't have to be I don't have to

2205
01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:19,479
be asking a Braille and Hater for so many, so

2206
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:20,800
many outs early.

2207
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:21,119
Speaker 2: In the season.

2208
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,039
Speaker 1: I wonder why he's saying, man, is because maybe he

2209
01:47:24,159 --> 01:47:26,920
felt like the pressure was too much to a bray

2210
01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:31,479
you when Hater went down, that he wasn't looking at

2211
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,119
the same picture that he would throw out in the

2212
01:47:33,199 --> 01:47:34,680
ninth vning that he was throwing out on the eighth

2213
01:47:34,680 --> 01:47:37,520
inning earlier. I'm just talking on the top of my

2214
01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:40,159
head here. I'm curious what was going through his mind

2215
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:42,840
is that if you can get a second leverage guy,

2216
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:45,880
that could be that second eighth inning guy to not

2217
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:48,119
put as much pressure on a brewer because the fact

2218
01:47:48,119 --> 01:47:50,520
of the matter is if Josh Hater got hurt because

2219
01:47:50,520 --> 01:47:53,119
he threw into a second inning on a couple occasions,

2220
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:57,439
there's definitely I mean, you would love for continued health

2221
01:47:58,079 --> 01:48:00,000
and be able to rely on Josh for six months,

2222
01:48:00,279 --> 01:48:03,359
but you know, if he's got soreness and guy's gonna

2223
01:48:03,359 --> 01:48:04,960
need downtime and look a brave he's been able to

2224
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:07,279
avoid the injury bug too. You kind of have to

2225
01:48:07,319 --> 01:48:08,960
think that about that in the back of your mind.

2226
01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:13,800
One name that wasn't really brought up, and I didn't

2227
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:17,079
listen to the show last night, But what exactly is

2228
01:48:17,159 --> 01:48:19,199
Lance mccullarter is going to do for twenty twenty six?

2229
01:48:20,159 --> 01:48:23,720
M guy was a bullpen guy a little bit last year,

2230
01:48:24,039 --> 01:48:26,319
but that was more just because there was nobody left

2231
01:48:26,359 --> 01:48:29,319
in the rotation to give him a spot. Or was

2232
01:48:29,439 --> 01:48:32,119
it that his arm was not able to give you

2233
01:48:32,279 --> 01:48:35,800
deep and give you length and does an off season

2234
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,359
all of a sudden change that he's on the books

2235
01:48:39,359 --> 01:48:41,399
for a lot of money next year, one more year

2236
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:44,560
of it. You let a bill to get something in return,

2237
01:48:44,560 --> 01:48:45,039
wouldn't you?

2238
01:48:46,359 --> 01:48:46,520
Speaker 3: Now?

2239
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 1: If you're like me, you're not expecting anything. It's it's oh,

2240
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:54,399
I hate saying this. It's almost like the gravy. You

2241
01:48:54,520 --> 01:48:56,039
need the chicken fried steak without it, but if the

2242
01:48:56,079 --> 01:48:58,600
gravy's on, there is good. Oh that's a you know what,

2243
01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:00,840
not analogy, Matt. But that was those how you like

2244
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:04,039
that one that I've used that before. I've used it before.

2245
01:49:04,239 --> 01:49:08,880
I wish it was new, but it's not. But you

2246
01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:12,399
can live without Lance mcculler's helping you. But it's it's

2247
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:14,600
one of those things. And every owner has to have

2248
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,920
a bad contract. If you own a professional team, you

2249
01:49:18,039 --> 01:49:20,800
have bad contracts. Unfortunately, in the last five years, the

2250
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:25,199
Astros have had three really bad contracts, the Jose Brayu,

2251
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:32,039
the Rafia Montero and the Lance mccutters deal. Other teams

2252
01:49:32,039 --> 01:49:34,520
will have three bad contracts in a five year stretch,

2253
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,680
the Astros won't be the only one. Twelve forty five

2254
01:49:37,720 --> 01:49:40,119
of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross, we spend some

2255
01:49:40,319 --> 01:49:44,199
time with Chris Myers of Fox Sports in fifteen minutes

2256
01:49:44,239 --> 01:49:49,159
here on seven ninety. Thanks Craig very much for the

2257
01:49:49,199 --> 01:49:53,960
sweet regards. We actually did get along very well. There's

2258
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:55,640
a lot of broadcasters in the NBA, the TV and

2259
01:49:55,720 --> 01:49:56,760
radio guys don't get along.

2260
01:49:58,039 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 2: Why is that? Wait, I don't know.

2261
01:50:00,039 --> 01:50:02,640
Speaker 1: I have not had a deep conversation with all thirty

2262
01:50:02,760 --> 01:50:04,439
other twenty nine announcers in the NBA. But he and

2263
01:50:04,479 --> 01:50:06,960
I get along great. I mean, I usually it's because

2264
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:08,520
of jealousy, and I know that Craig is jealous. I

2265
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:14,720
mean that's fine. No, we actually get along I've known

2266
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:17,439
Craig for twenty five years, so it's it was It's

2267
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:19,319
been great. We've been working together for ten years together

2268
01:50:19,359 --> 01:50:21,960
on these broadcasts. So yeah, he's good dude. But yeah,

2269
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:23,720
there are some there's a little bit of jealousy about

2270
01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:26,079
oh I'm better, he gets more, claiming look, TV guys

2271
01:50:26,119 --> 01:50:27,680
always getting more of the run than radio guys.

2272
01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:28,079
Speaker 3: I get it.

2273
01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:32,359
Speaker 1: But I'll get my shot eventually, Jonathan, I'm waiting my turn. Yeah,

2274
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:34,399
and I don't want the TV job. I'm just saying

2275
01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:36,760
I'll my Haghlit's appear on Sports Center.

2276
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 2: Maybe I can.

2277
01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:39,560
Speaker 1: Maybe if the Rockets then I do something incredible. I

2278
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:41,600
need to do it like a Gus Johnson lose my

2279
01:50:41,720 --> 01:50:42,239
mind moment.

2280
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:44,760
Speaker 2: Your calls on the documentary two that just came out

2281
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:49,199
with James Harden and Katie did it really remember? I

2282
01:50:49,279 --> 01:50:51,920
think Brad was telling this about it. Oh that's right, Yeah,

2283
01:50:52,039 --> 01:50:52,720
that's really good.

2284
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,560
Speaker 1: So if you've we've played the Gus Johnson before earlier

2285
01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:58,159
this week, remember what is your take on it?

2286
01:50:58,279 --> 01:50:58,479
Speaker 2: Did you?

2287
01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:01,079
Speaker 1: Because there are people that are still talking about it

2288
01:51:01,239 --> 01:51:04,359
saying that Gus it was just it was just a

2289
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:07,319
comedic bit that he wasn't being genuine about it. He

2290
01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:10,560
that he he saw an opportunity to lose his mind

2291
01:51:10,720 --> 01:51:13,760
just to gain the intention and that it was not

2292
01:51:14,039 --> 01:51:15,159
great professionalism.

2293
01:51:15,319 --> 01:51:19,119
Speaker 2: Well, my question would be to them, is like you

2294
01:51:19,399 --> 01:51:22,680
asked for authenticity, right, like you you want That's a

2295
01:51:22,760 --> 01:51:25,199
question that if that's the question is to where people

2296
01:51:25,359 --> 01:51:27,520
are people are questioning whether or not Gus Johnson was

2297
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:29,239
being authentic when he did that. I think where I

2298
01:51:29,319 --> 01:51:32,119
sit though, is like, Okay, even if it wasn't, I

2299
01:51:32,359 --> 01:51:34,119
want that out of our broadcasters. I want you to

2300
01:51:34,199 --> 01:51:36,079
make the game feel more than life, you know what

2301
01:51:36,119 --> 01:51:38,079
I mean. I want to be in the atmosphere rather

2302
01:51:38,119 --> 01:51:40,840
than it is a monotone straight and to your point,

2303
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:42,439
you have to be a little more professionalism to it,

2304
01:51:42,560 --> 01:51:44,560
like you have to have a little be more clean

2305
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:45,239
to and everything.

2306
01:51:45,319 --> 01:51:47,039
Speaker 1: But I think it was amazing, Like you got me

2307
01:51:47,159 --> 01:51:49,199
high oh snap. When I looked on Instagram and saw

2308
01:51:49,239 --> 01:51:51,439
a clip and I heard him screaming through you know

2309
01:51:51,600 --> 01:51:53,520
with the highlight, I was like, this is this is dope?

2310
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:55,800
This was up Like that's how big that play was?

2311
01:51:55,960 --> 01:51:56,079
Speaker 3: Right?

2312
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:57,800
Speaker 2: Well, the reality is.

2313
01:51:57,840 --> 01:52:02,199
Speaker 1: This, it's it's an everybody's got an opinion about it.

2314
01:52:02,680 --> 01:52:04,720
You're not going to be able to make everybody happy

2315
01:52:04,800 --> 01:52:06,239
with every call that you make. I mean there have

2316
01:52:06,279 --> 01:52:11,079
been people that have said that some announcers don't show

2317
01:52:11,199 --> 01:52:13,079
enough emotion, some guys show too much.

2318
01:52:13,560 --> 01:52:14,359
Speaker 2: Well, I know that dude.

2319
01:52:14,840 --> 01:52:17,359
Speaker 1: I can't think of his name, the Charlotte Hornets, Oh,

2320
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,560
Eric Collins. You know a lot of people don't like him.

2321
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:21,800
I know it's like a very on the fence you

2322
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:23,079
love him, you hate him type of thing. And I

2323
01:52:23,199 --> 01:52:25,720
really love him. I loved like when he calls games. Yeah,

2324
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:27,119
I've actually got I talked to him when he did

2325
01:52:27,119 --> 01:52:28,520
a U of H game a couple of weeks ago,

2326
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:29,720
and I talked to him a little bit. I adn't

2327
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:33,800
talking to him about that, but yeah, sometimes you make

2328
01:52:33,840 --> 01:52:36,159
the most of your opportunity. For I'll give you a

2329
01:52:36,199 --> 01:52:38,159
little peelback of the curtain for me real quick before

2330
01:52:38,159 --> 01:52:42,319
we get to Chris. If there's fifteen seconds left to

2331
01:52:42,359 --> 01:52:47,680
go in an important game, I'm not going to necessarily

2332
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:49,760
turn my engine up because my engine, I feel like,

2333
01:52:49,880 --> 01:52:53,000
is always going pretty high. Yeah, but I know that

2334
01:52:53,119 --> 01:52:56,920
if something remarkable happens that it's going to be replayed

2335
01:52:57,199 --> 01:52:59,640
over and over again. Yeah, so I want to make

2336
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:02,960
sure it's good. I want to make sure it's hopefully memorable.

2337
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:08,479
You know, if Kevin Durant hits a game winner to

2338
01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:13,359
beat the Warriors in a playoff series, I might lose

2339
01:53:13,399 --> 01:53:14,319
my blank you know what I mean?

2340
01:53:14,439 --> 01:53:16,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like you should.

2341
01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:18,199
Speaker 1: But that would be but that would be authentic to me.

2342
01:53:18,319 --> 01:53:20,439
That's not Hey, I got to go into this gay

2343
01:53:20,640 --> 01:53:22,479
like today. If I will lose my mind over a

2344
01:53:22,680 --> 01:53:24,479
Washington game, it's just because I'm looking to get on

2345
01:53:24,560 --> 01:53:28,319
the highlights. There should be nothing tonight unless the game

2346
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:31,119
turns out a way different way than I anticipated to

2347
01:53:31,199 --> 01:53:35,640
be that I should be going crazy over anything that

2348
01:53:35,720 --> 01:53:37,680
happens in the Rockets game. Now, if there's an amazing

2349
01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:40,560
dunk or something, or a half court shot, you know,

2350
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:42,600
Tarry Easton's got two half court shots of his credit

2351
01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:45,479
already this year. That stuff you kind of go graze.

2352
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:49,920
So you just have to kind of walk a fine line.

2353
01:53:49,960 --> 01:53:51,960
Speaker 2: So is it more like how he was saying at

2354
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:53,239
the end, like give him the heisman?

2355
01:53:53,279 --> 01:53:53,399
Speaker 11: Now?

2356
01:53:53,560 --> 01:53:56,039
Speaker 1: Is that where it's no because you stall the call

2357
01:53:56,119 --> 01:53:57,560
or did you have some of your email or not?

2358
01:53:58,479 --> 01:53:59,039
Speaker 2: I see.

2359
01:54:01,399 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 7: So.

2360
01:54:01,960 --> 01:54:04,680
Speaker 1: I think the biggest criticism was that he took his

2361
01:54:04,840 --> 01:54:08,399
voice to a different octave and he lost all semblance

2362
01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:11,880
of describing the play. Now, if he does that on radio,

2363
01:54:13,239 --> 01:54:17,359
he probably gets way more criticism. But because he did

2364
01:54:17,399 --> 01:54:20,119
it on television and you saw what exactly what happened,

2365
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:23,760
you can go well, if that great catch is made,

2366
01:54:24,239 --> 01:54:26,000
then the play by play reaction is going to be

2367
01:54:26,039 --> 01:54:29,439
the following like if you if you were just if

2368
01:54:29,479 --> 01:54:32,279
you were blind, hopefully you're not. I mean, we've visually

2369
01:54:32,359 --> 01:54:35,439
paired listeners to the show, and I always value very

2370
01:54:35,520 --> 01:54:37,319
much the visually impaired folks that reach out to me

2371
01:54:37,359 --> 01:54:39,920
and say, hey, I listened to Rockets games and thank

2372
01:54:39,920 --> 01:54:41,720
you very much for doing your job, and it's my.

2373
01:54:41,800 --> 01:54:42,439
Speaker 2: Pleasure to do it.

2374
01:54:43,079 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 1: But if Gus is doing the radio call of that,

2375
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:53,840
I don't think he's giving that same sort of attempt

2376
01:54:53,880 --> 01:54:58,279
to sizzle. Now he knows what he's doing. I don't

2377
01:54:58,319 --> 01:55:00,279
know Gus very well. I've talked to himbe two or

2378
01:55:00,319 --> 01:55:03,760
three times in my entire life. I don't think it stick,

2379
01:55:05,119 --> 01:55:09,600
but I could be wrong. But they're saying, even if

2380
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:13,199
you're a Gus Johnson fan, I got it. This is it.

2381
01:55:13,479 --> 01:55:15,319
It just went way over the top here.

2382
01:55:15,359 --> 01:55:30,239
Speaker 2: It is deso get a joke it out was the

2383
01:55:30,439 --> 01:55:40,359
love foot the first one to touch Oh my goodness,

2384
01:55:40,439 --> 01:55:42,560
it's a touchdown. Oh my gosh.

2385
01:55:43,119 --> 01:55:45,279
Speaker 1: Even Joe Klotter, buddy of the show and used me

2386
01:55:45,359 --> 01:55:46,960
on the show, lost it a little bit.

2387
01:55:47,079 --> 01:55:49,960
Speaker 2: Says I'm saying, I don't I just can't see how

2388
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:52,199
people find that and make it a negative thing. I

2389
01:55:52,319 --> 01:55:53,319
just I don't know, man.

2390
01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:56,439
Speaker 1: I guess I can see a little bit of their

2391
01:55:56,520 --> 01:55:58,840
side and the because you're supposed to as a national

2392
01:55:58,920 --> 01:56:06,199
broadcaster try to have some sort of moderation big calls

2393
01:56:06,239 --> 01:56:09,720
are Certainly it was an incredible catch, but it also

2394
01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:12,800
it was a game against Penn State at eleven o'clock

2395
01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:14,840
on a Saturday afternoon when you're supposed to be up

2396
01:56:14,840 --> 01:56:16,039
by three touchdowns.

2397
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:17,039
Speaker 2: And the undefeated them with two seedsons.

2398
01:56:17,079 --> 01:56:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I guess if it was for the

2399
01:56:19,960 --> 01:56:23,760
championship or it was for a national title, you kind

2400
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:27,479
of Again, it's in the eye of the beholder. I'm

2401
01:56:27,520 --> 01:56:31,279
not going to crush him for it. He's also got

2402
01:56:31,399 --> 01:56:33,000
to be sixty years old, so if you go to

2403
01:56:33,079 --> 01:56:35,159
the high notes, I can tell you this is something

2404
01:56:35,199 --> 01:56:39,119
that's older now, Jonathan. Those high notes are a little hard.

2405
01:56:39,319 --> 01:56:41,159
They come out a little earlier than you think they

2406
01:56:41,199 --> 01:56:46,560
should be just saying throwing out there, all right. Chris

2407
01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:49,520
Meyers Fox Sports joins his next twelve to fifty seven

2408
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:54,960
on Sports Talk seven ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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01:56:57,039 --> 01:57:01,159
Speaker 2: One O two on Sports Talk seven ninety c J.

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01:57:01,439 --> 01:57:04,840
Speaker 1: Stroud is not on the field as the Texans allow

2411
01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:09,159
media access for a few minutes. Thus the thought him

2412
01:57:09,199 --> 01:57:13,119
playing on Sunday is very much still up in the air. Look,

2413
01:57:13,199 --> 01:57:15,960
with the Texans playing the Bills a week from tomorrow,

2414
01:57:16,079 --> 01:57:17,720
the best case scenario is for him to take this

2415
01:57:17,880 --> 01:57:20,560
week off, let Davis Mills do his thing as the

2416
01:57:20,640 --> 01:57:23,039
Texans tried to beat the Tennessee Titans. The man that

2417
01:57:23,039 --> 01:57:24,960
will call the game for Fox one of the most

2418
01:57:25,039 --> 01:57:27,720
recognizable television personalities we have seen in the history of

2419
01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:30,840
sports television, and we'll be calling the Texans Titan game

2420
01:57:30,880 --> 01:57:32,600
in Nashville. It's Chris Myers with us here on the

2421
01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:34,800
Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Chris, it's been a few years.

2422
01:57:35,119 --> 01:57:36,840
Thank you for the time in good afternoon to you.

2423
01:57:36,960 --> 01:57:37,560
How are things.

2424
01:57:38,640 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 6: I'm good, Matt, Thank you for that kind introduction. Yeah,

2425
01:57:41,760 --> 01:57:42,600
it's good to talk to you.

2426
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get to your book. I want

2427
01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:46,920
to get to how you and I had our first

2428
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:48,960
conversation many years ago. But I want to get to

2429
01:57:49,039 --> 01:57:53,560
first and foremost the NFL right now. Well, I'm sure

2430
01:57:53,600 --> 01:57:56,159
I've watched the Jacksonville Houston game. You called the game

2431
01:57:56,199 --> 01:57:59,359
against the Jaguars in Vegas Raiders the week before that

2432
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:03,159
Jacksonville has lost their mind. You have to understand why

2433
01:58:03,439 --> 01:58:05,880
mean that way? That performance last week was quite amazing.

2434
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:08,880
Speaker 6: A lot of folks, Yeah, they're still I mean watching

2435
01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:12,079
the reaction of Liam Cohen. I mean, everything that had

2436
01:58:12,119 --> 01:58:14,640
to go wrong for them, did I know, there were

2437
01:58:14,680 --> 01:58:16,760
a couple of key penalties in there, but everything that

2438
01:58:17,119 --> 01:58:19,600
had to go right, you know, for the Texans happened,

2439
01:58:20,079 --> 01:58:22,479
and that's how it goes. I mean, it went in

2440
01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:26,840
their favor. Different team, different circumstances. The week before obviously

2441
01:58:26,880 --> 01:58:30,520
against the Raiders, but some crazy stuff happened late. You know,

2442
01:58:30,600 --> 01:58:32,399
they had the record field goal, they were able to

2443
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:36,359
survive going for two when the Raiders could have beat them.

2444
01:58:36,479 --> 01:58:38,439
So that's how the games are played. A lot of

2445
01:58:38,479 --> 01:58:41,199
one score games. I know Texan fans are familiar with that.

2446
01:58:41,359 --> 01:58:43,520
And Jacksonville is a good team. They're a little thin

2447
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:45,560
you know some of the things that have happened to

2448
01:58:45,600 --> 01:58:48,239
their game plan with Travis Hunter and now out for

2449
01:58:48,359 --> 01:58:51,600
the year. But the division is really about the Colts,

2450
01:58:51,640 --> 01:58:53,760
I think at this point, and who could either slow

2451
01:58:53,840 --> 01:58:57,640
them down or get in as a wildcard between if

2452
01:58:57,680 --> 01:59:01,359
the Texans have still helps, they're along with Jacksonville.

2453
01:59:01,079 --> 01:59:03,840
Speaker 1: The NFL television schedule, folks, for those who don't know,

2454
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:07,520
primarily Fox had been in NFC teams, But you guys

2455
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,640
are doing more AFC games than ever before. And you

2456
01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:12,800
saw New England a couple of weeks ago. And we

2457
01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:14,840
don't talk much Patriot football here and won't do a

2458
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:16,479
whole lot, but the fact of the matter is that's

2459
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:18,279
one of the teams that could be in the Texans way.

2460
01:59:18,720 --> 01:59:21,119
Are you surprised at some of these teams like Indianapolis

2461
01:59:21,159 --> 01:59:22,720
and New England have just come on the scene like

2462
01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:23,880
they have so far this season?

2463
01:59:24,840 --> 01:59:26,079
Speaker 3: You know, not really.

2464
01:59:26,199 --> 01:59:29,079
Speaker 6: I mean, if you have your quarterback and you develop

2465
01:59:29,159 --> 01:59:31,720
them properly, or at least he connects with the kind

2466
01:59:31,760 --> 01:59:35,760
of offensive scheme that you have, then I think you're

2467
01:59:35,800 --> 01:59:38,239
gonna do well. And Mike Brabel came in and you

2468
01:59:38,279 --> 01:59:40,640
could see a difference the way that Drake May was

2469
01:59:40,720 --> 01:59:42,439
being coached again. He was a rookie and he didn't

2470
01:59:42,479 --> 01:59:44,439
start right away, but later in his rookie year and

2471
01:59:44,479 --> 01:59:47,640
then this year, Josh McDaniel's coming in and his strength

2472
01:59:47,720 --> 01:59:50,920
is as an offensive coordinator at a head coach, even

2473
01:59:50,960 --> 01:59:53,520
with a limited receiving corps, what they've done with him

2474
01:59:53,840 --> 01:59:56,840
and having called a couple of their games very impressive.

2475
01:59:56,880 --> 01:59:58,800
He's got all the physical skills, got the right kind

2476
01:59:58,800 --> 02:00:00,760
of attitude him emerge.

2477
02:00:00,800 --> 02:00:01,239
Speaker 3: He's good.

2478
02:00:01,319 --> 02:00:03,600
Speaker 6: He's going to be even better there, and he's you know,

2479
02:00:03,640 --> 02:00:05,159
he can take off a a run if he needs to,

2480
02:00:05,279 --> 02:00:07,079
but he's not gonna not gonna live on that.

2481
02:00:07,239 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 3: The culture a unique situation.

2482
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:10,640
Speaker 6: They have a little bit of a I'm not saying

2483
02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:13,880
they're the Eagles, but the Saquon Barkley Jalen Hurts combo.

2484
02:00:14,359 --> 02:00:17,479
They have that potential with with Daniel Jones and what

2485
02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:21,039
Jonathan Taylor has has done, and their offensive line is solid,

2486
02:00:21,760 --> 02:00:24,720
a key pickup with lou Anarumo, the defensive coordinator who

2487
02:00:24,760 --> 02:00:27,239
has kind of kicked out of Cincinnati, has kind of

2488
02:00:27,319 --> 02:00:30,000
molded that defense and they have some strong points there

2489
02:00:30,039 --> 02:00:33,600
as well. So Daniel Jones, he's fallen back a little

2490
02:00:33,640 --> 02:00:37,520
into the you know, turnover prone Daniel Jones we might remember,

2491
02:00:37,640 --> 02:00:39,960
but he's learned a lot, and actually he spoke when

2492
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:42,479
I talked to him, his stop in Minnesota was of

2493
02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:45,600
great value when when he was there with Sam Darnold

2494
02:00:45,640 --> 02:00:47,720
and learning from some of the things in their system

2495
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:49,319
that he thinks is made of a better quarterback.

2496
02:00:49,399 --> 02:00:51,920
Speaker 3: So I think those teams are for real? Are they

2497
02:00:52,039 --> 02:00:54,199
for Are they good enough to beat? You know, the

2498
02:00:54,319 --> 02:00:54,720
Chiefs and.

2499
02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:57,359
Speaker 6: Bills at their peak, but we've seen the Chiefs and

2500
02:00:57,479 --> 02:01:00,840
Bills look very vulnerable. So I think the AFC is

2501
02:01:00,920 --> 02:01:03,960
really wide open, and you're ultimately what your record says

2502
02:01:04,039 --> 02:01:06,039
it is, and then it'll matter if you get into

2503
02:01:06,079 --> 02:01:08,199
the playoffs and how will you perform there.

2504
02:01:08,680 --> 02:01:10,840
Speaker 1: Chris Myers is w us some Fox Sports we'll call

2505
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:13,880
the Texans and Titans game, and we've always had a

2506
02:01:13,960 --> 02:01:15,800
chance when we talk to game broadcasters. You get a

2507
02:01:15,880 --> 02:01:18,640
chance to visit with coaches and players on Fridays or Saturdays,

2508
02:01:18,640 --> 02:01:22,920
depending on who's the home team. With social media, Chris

2509
02:01:23,720 --> 02:01:28,000
and the worrisome of intelligence getting out had those conversations,

2510
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:32,439
are they still pretty off the record helping you guys

2511
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:34,920
out or do you find yourself with these coaches being

2512
02:01:34,960 --> 02:01:36,439
a little more tight lip than maybe when you were

2513
02:01:36,479 --> 02:01:37,600
calling games ten years ago.

2514
02:01:38,680 --> 02:01:40,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think you were always tight lipped.

2515
02:01:40,880 --> 02:01:43,079
Speaker 6: And I got to say some of the coaches were

2516
02:01:43,279 --> 02:01:46,880
very I don't want to say incooperative. Some were more

2517
02:01:46,920 --> 02:01:49,000
cooperative than others. That's probably the way to work another

2518
02:01:49,039 --> 02:01:52,239
They would give you more information if they were familiar

2519
02:01:52,359 --> 02:01:54,479
that they could trust you and say, hey, if you

2520
02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:57,279
see this scenario in this part of the game, we

2521
02:01:57,640 --> 02:01:59,880
might fake it. So just so you're aware because our directors,

2522
02:02:00,079 --> 02:02:02,640
it's in there with our producer and and myself and

2523
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,079
the analyst and our reporters. So so, in other words,

2524
02:02:05,079 --> 02:02:07,520
we're trying to serve the audience, and they trusted. I

2525
02:02:07,840 --> 02:02:10,000
had a coach tell us, hey, if this guy comes

2526
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:13,000
in the game, this wide receiver, you know he's not

2527
02:02:13,079 --> 02:02:14,640
going to catch. We're not throw it at him because

2528
02:02:14,640 --> 02:02:16,319
he's a coward, he's afraid to go over the middle.

2529
02:02:16,560 --> 02:02:18,399
But just be aware that you know he's out there

2530
02:02:18,439 --> 02:02:20,399
at a block. So I mean, you have to respect

2531
02:02:20,479 --> 02:02:23,640
and and you wouldn't leak some of that information, but

2532
02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:26,199
you do use it in the broadcast. What I what

2533
02:02:26,279 --> 02:02:28,720
I have found is that a lot of information is

2534
02:02:28,760 --> 02:02:31,159
out there before you even sit out to talk to

2535
02:02:31,279 --> 02:02:33,000
these guys. I mean, I you know, they'll they'll tell

2536
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:34,720
you things. And I don't even know if they're aware

2537
02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:37,199
how it leaked out through their staff or people covering

2538
02:02:37,239 --> 02:02:39,520
the team, and and and because of all of the

2539
02:02:40,840 --> 02:02:43,880
I guess the sources surrounding a particular team, But I

2540
02:02:43,960 --> 02:02:46,199
still find them valuable. Even I know some teams want

2541
02:02:46,239 --> 02:02:48,479
to do zooms a little bit more to keep it

2542
02:02:48,760 --> 02:02:51,079
since that era has happened. It keeps it easier on them.

2543
02:02:51,720 --> 02:02:54,640
But but I, for example, we're this weekend, we're we're

2544
02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:56,840
setting up We're going to obviously talk with Damiko Ryans

2545
02:02:56,840 --> 02:02:58,720
and who we want to the few players who want

2546
02:02:58,720 --> 02:03:00,199
to talk to. I think Cody Barton is on our

2547
02:03:00,239 --> 02:03:03,359
list for Saturday when the Texans get into get into Nashville.

2548
02:03:03,399 --> 02:03:05,439
But we don't know who the quarterback's going to be.

2549
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:07,880
And I heard what you said. We're kind of assuming

2550
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:10,119
that strout is they're going to wait, and the league

2551
02:03:10,159 --> 02:03:12,800
has been tougher a little bit about concussion protocol where

2552
02:03:12,800 --> 02:03:15,239
they're kind of, you know, not allowing teams to push

2553
02:03:15,319 --> 02:03:18,840
things along. So we're assuming it's going to be Davis Mills.

2554
02:03:18,880 --> 02:03:20,960
But so we're ready for either one, but they won't.

2555
02:03:21,159 --> 02:03:23,279
They won't tell us that until we actually sit out,

2556
02:03:23,319 --> 02:03:25,479
and sometimes coaches will say, hey, we'd rather just not

2557
02:03:25,560 --> 02:03:28,359
be out till tomorrow morning or whatever. And so you

2558
02:03:28,479 --> 02:03:30,279
have to that trust has to be there, and I

2559
02:03:30,319 --> 02:03:33,600
think over years we've lived up to that and most

2560
02:03:33,640 --> 02:03:34,399
of the coaches know that.

2561
02:03:35,159 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 1: The conundrum that Texans fans here Chris have is this

2562
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:41,760
is a defense and with Will Anderson you've called games

2563
02:03:41,800 --> 02:03:44,439
before with him, this is a squad that could be

2564
02:03:44,560 --> 02:03:48,600
a legitimate AFC title contender. The offense with the offensive

2565
02:03:48,640 --> 02:03:50,199
line has been a work in progress. I'm not giving

2566
02:03:50,199 --> 02:03:53,079
you information that you don't already know, but I'm curious

2567
02:03:53,119 --> 02:03:55,159
how often do you run in that around your weekly

2568
02:03:55,399 --> 02:03:58,000
circles about man, there is one side of the ball

2569
02:03:58,039 --> 02:04:00,399
that's so prolifically good. In the other side it still

2570
02:04:00,439 --> 02:04:01,560
has so many question marks.

2571
02:04:02,640 --> 02:04:05,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, you do have teams and oddly, look look at Denver.

2572
02:04:05,760 --> 02:04:08,680
You know, you had Sean Payton, this offensive minded quarterback

2573
02:04:08,800 --> 02:04:11,560
guru whatever, and yet he's got, you know, an outstanding

2574
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:15,159
Bronco defense and that offense even though bow Nix is developing,

2575
02:04:15,560 --> 02:04:17,960
but it's not exactly we saw in their most recent game.

2576
02:04:17,960 --> 02:04:21,960
It's not exactly a high powered offense. I mean, Brian Billick,

2577
02:04:21,960 --> 02:04:24,520
who was this great offensive coordinator a head coach of

2578
02:04:24,560 --> 02:04:26,560
the Ravens, won a Super Bowl because of the Ravens

2579
02:04:26,640 --> 02:04:27,680
defense going back.

2580
02:04:27,640 --> 02:04:29,359
Speaker 3: Historically, So those things happen.

2581
02:04:29,479 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 6: What I love about you know, I look Amiko Riods,

2582
02:04:31,520 --> 02:04:33,680
I had the pleasure called a you know, when he

2583
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:36,079
first took over at CJ. Stroud was drafted, so I've

2584
02:04:36,359 --> 02:04:38,159
kind of seen and then there were some games in there.

2585
02:04:38,199 --> 02:04:39,960
I didn't get to watch the Texans a lot, but

2586
02:04:40,359 --> 02:04:42,800
I think there's a good core there and other than it. Look,

2587
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:44,920
they've tried drafting in the offensive line. It's the one

2588
02:04:44,960 --> 02:04:47,680
area that Texans just can't seem to hit. Let's hope

2589
02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:50,279
that the nursery is a guy that can develop. But

2590
02:04:50,760 --> 02:04:53,680
I love, I really do like what healthy this defense.

2591
02:04:53,760 --> 02:04:56,439
We hope Peatrie can play too. In concussion protocol for

2592
02:04:56,520 --> 02:04:59,560
this week, I mean number one scoring in defense and

2593
02:04:59,640 --> 02:05:02,399
number one in total defense. There was an interesting stat

2594
02:05:02,439 --> 02:05:05,880
about that that never before the Super Bowl era has

2595
02:05:05,920 --> 02:05:08,479
a team that has led the league in that not

2596
02:05:08,680 --> 02:05:12,279
been a playoff team. So if they continue that, that's

2597
02:05:12,319 --> 02:05:14,600
an encouraging stile, and I still think you can win

2598
02:05:14,720 --> 02:05:16,880
with defense. The Eagles are really doing more of that.

2599
02:05:17,600 --> 02:05:20,920
You just need your offense to kind of do their part.

2600
02:05:21,359 --> 02:05:24,600
And you know, I think the speed and the secondary

2601
02:05:24,680 --> 02:05:28,000
is outstanding. I think that the Neil Hunter emerges Will Anders.

2602
02:05:28,039 --> 02:05:30,039
I mean, you know, I think there's a lot to

2603
02:05:30,279 --> 02:05:32,880
like about this defense, and that's going to have to

2604
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:35,159
All their losses have been one score games, and if

2605
02:05:35,199 --> 02:05:37,560
the offense had done a little bit more, you know,

2606
02:05:37,760 --> 02:05:41,520
then maybe the record would be different. So I guess

2607
02:05:41,600 --> 02:05:43,840
your question is, yeah, you can be a little lopsided,

2608
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:45,439
but the other side of the ball is going to

2609
02:05:45,520 --> 02:05:47,359
have to do something or you're not going to go

2610
02:05:47,560 --> 02:05:49,119
very far if you do get in the playoffs.

2611
02:05:49,279 --> 02:05:51,319
Speaker 1: Chris Meyers Fox Sports with us. Before we let him run,

2612
02:05:51,359 --> 02:05:52,920
I want to talk about his book a little bit.

2613
02:05:53,039 --> 02:05:55,920
It's called That Deserves a whole untold stories of legends

2614
02:05:56,000 --> 02:05:59,159
and champions. You've got an audio CD. How long it

2615
02:05:59,279 --> 02:05:59,800
take you to do that?

2616
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:01,520
Speaker 2: By the way, was that a quick one?

2617
02:06:02,960 --> 02:06:03,119
Speaker 3: Well?

2618
02:06:03,199 --> 02:06:06,039
Speaker 6: The audio portok took a long time. Yeah, to go

2619
02:06:06,119 --> 02:06:07,880
into a booth by yourself. I kind of read what

2620
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:11,479
you wrote, Yeah, but and you know you could add.

2621
02:06:11,399 --> 02:06:12,039
Speaker 3: To it a little bit.

2622
02:06:12,119 --> 02:06:14,359
Speaker 6: Sometimes there were some moments after taking about a year

2623
02:06:14,439 --> 02:06:16,800
to write it, going back into the pandemic, putting together

2624
02:06:16,880 --> 02:06:19,560
notes from ESPN a decade to twenty plus years at

2625
02:06:19,600 --> 02:06:22,800
Fox and covering some Super Bowls and World Series and

2626
02:06:23,159 --> 02:06:25,840
interviewing you know, some interesting people through the years, went

2627
02:06:25,960 --> 02:06:27,800
up close. But it was a lot of fun to

2628
02:06:27,880 --> 02:06:29,800
kind of look back on and really connect.

2629
02:06:29,479 --> 02:06:30,399
Speaker 3: To where we are now.

2630
02:06:30,640 --> 02:06:34,000
Speaker 6: And people who've had the audiobook really really appreciated that.

2631
02:06:34,159 --> 02:06:36,680
But yeah, it's about you know, I mean, time goes

2632
02:06:36,720 --> 02:06:38,600
so fast. You're in there and you're working, and you

2633
02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:40,920
know it is you're under the next assignment. And so

2634
02:06:41,039 --> 02:06:42,960
when they approached me, they said you had some unique

2635
02:06:43,039 --> 02:06:46,039
things happened, and that you know, the OJ Simpson interview,

2636
02:06:46,119 --> 02:06:48,079
the first ever live you know, you were there at

2637
02:06:48,159 --> 02:06:51,640
the at the earthquake World Series, you were there when

2638
02:06:51,800 --> 02:06:55,119
Dale Earnhard died at Daytona. I mean, these are moments

2639
02:06:55,199 --> 02:06:57,000
that you know, when Brady came back and won that

2640
02:06:57,119 --> 02:07:00,159
Super Bowl, the greatest comeback ever with the Falcon so

2641
02:07:00,439 --> 02:07:01,920
and you were in the middle of those for the

2642
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:04,800
network broadcasting or a network live on the air, and

2643
02:07:05,279 --> 02:07:07,520
those moments we want to make sure people know about

2644
02:07:07,520 --> 02:07:09,920
what it's like behind that and what you were thinking

2645
02:07:09,960 --> 02:07:11,439
at the moment. So I tried to do the best

2646
02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:14,079
of that, relating it to how I was raised at

2647
02:07:14,159 --> 02:07:16,640
my background in the business, to kind of bring the viewers.

2648
02:07:17,079 --> 02:07:18,680
That's always what you got to think of first, the

2649
02:07:18,760 --> 02:07:21,039
listener of the viewer, what they want to know, what

2650
02:07:21,159 --> 02:07:23,000
they can know, and what you can give them based

2651
02:07:23,039 --> 02:07:25,279
on the great events that I've been able.

2652
02:07:25,119 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 3: To be around.

2653
02:07:25,840 --> 02:07:28,640
Speaker 1: My last question is I didn't interview you many many

2654
02:07:28,760 --> 02:07:31,439
years ago, and I was in nineteen ninety eight. You

2655
02:07:31,479 --> 02:07:33,800
were at ESPN doing the Up Close Show and I

2656
02:07:33,920 --> 02:07:37,079
was twenty six. I was newly married and didn't have

2657
02:07:37,079 --> 02:07:38,800
any kids. I can watch whatever I wanted to because

2658
02:07:38,800 --> 02:07:40,520
that's what we did. We didn't have kids. So I

2659
02:07:40,600 --> 02:07:43,199
put clothes on on a RANDO day and there you

2660
02:07:43,359 --> 02:07:46,640
are interviewing O. J. Simpson, and you came out all

2661
02:07:46,720 --> 02:07:49,039
guns of blazing, and it's worthy. For those of you

2662
02:07:49,119 --> 02:07:51,319
that never saw it, I'm sure it's on YouTube. It

2663
02:07:51,359 --> 02:07:52,960
won't take you hard to find it. It was one

2664
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:57,000
of the most amazing interviews of the now deceased OJ Simpson.

2665
02:07:57,800 --> 02:07:59,760
Just for a one minute of background, if you don't mind,

2666
02:08:00,319 --> 02:08:02,520
tell me what it was like when you got in

2667
02:08:02,600 --> 02:08:05,079
the studio with him. Did he know that you were

2668
02:08:05,159 --> 02:08:07,600
going to be as forthcoming as you were?

2669
02:08:08,159 --> 02:08:08,720
Speaker 2: Set that up?

2670
02:08:08,800 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 1: And then what was it like when the conversation was

2671
02:08:10,880 --> 02:08:12,439
done and the cameras were turned off.

2672
02:08:13,359 --> 02:08:14,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was the first.

2673
02:08:14,520 --> 02:08:17,680
Speaker 6: Live interview that OJ Simpson had done after both you know,

2674
02:08:17,760 --> 02:08:20,680
not only the double murder trial, but the wrongful death

2675
02:08:20,800 --> 02:08:24,119
lawsuit and that one. Obviously he was found accountable and

2676
02:08:24,199 --> 02:08:25,840
he had wanted to come on the show, I think,

2677
02:08:26,279 --> 02:08:27,520
and those are the two conditions.

2678
02:08:27,560 --> 02:08:28,279
Speaker 3: It had to be live.

2679
02:08:28,399 --> 02:08:30,439
Speaker 6: And I couldn't ask about his children, and I said, okay,

2680
02:08:30,680 --> 02:08:33,119
that's fair, but I got to ask everything else. And

2681
02:08:33,399 --> 02:08:35,640
obviously he wasn't happy. He knew I was going to

2682
02:08:35,680 --> 02:08:37,600
ask about what went on. I'm not going to talk

2683
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:39,880
about his Heisman trophy or football days. And at the

2684
02:08:39,960 --> 02:08:42,199
end of that interview, he was he was a little smug.

2685
02:08:42,239 --> 02:08:43,880
They had great talk in sports with you. That was

2686
02:08:43,920 --> 02:08:47,159
his sarcastic shot. But beforehand, in the green real way,

2687
02:08:47,199 --> 02:08:49,159
he was chilling. I just I didn't say much. Usually

2688
02:08:49,159 --> 02:08:51,560
I'll go in and chat a little bit with people

2689
02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:54,479
before we do the show. In this case, I just said,

2690
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:56,399
thank you for doing this. I appreciate it. He brought

2691
02:08:56,439 --> 02:08:59,520
a PR person, and you know, we had some protesters.

2692
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:01,399
People thought I shouldn't do the interview, that I was

2693
02:09:01,439 --> 02:09:03,319
going to glorify a killer. But it was the chance

2694
02:09:03,439 --> 02:09:05,479
to ask. And this is why I'm brought up. And

2695
02:09:05,760 --> 02:09:07,840
in the book some people in broadcasting have talk about it,

2696
02:09:08,039 --> 02:09:10,520
the chance to ask the questions that people would have asked,

2697
02:09:10,640 --> 02:09:12,760
or an attorney would have asked had he taken the stand.

2698
02:09:13,359 --> 02:09:15,560
You know, in that in that double murder trial which

2699
02:09:15,600 --> 02:09:18,600
he was acquitted, and I had really great help in

2700
02:09:18,720 --> 02:09:21,880
preparing talk the lawyers, detectives, you know, doctors. I saw

2701
02:09:21,920 --> 02:09:23,800
evidence that even the jury didn't get to see it,

2702
02:09:24,199 --> 02:09:26,039
and there was no question that he was guilty. I

2703
02:09:26,279 --> 02:09:28,800
wanted to be fair, but I had to ask those

2704
02:09:28,880 --> 02:09:31,760
things and and and there were a few times he

2705
02:09:31,840 --> 02:09:32,439
tried to spin it.

2706
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:33,000
Speaker 3: They told me.

2707
02:09:33,159 --> 02:09:35,399
Speaker 6: You know, I think I mentioned this in the book.

2708
02:09:35,520 --> 02:09:37,640
One of the attorneys who defended him said, off direct,

2709
02:09:38,159 --> 02:09:40,039
you know, I wouldn't do this interview. I said, why

2710
02:09:40,079 --> 02:09:42,319
is it just because he makes everybody attached to him?

2711
02:09:42,359 --> 02:09:42,880
Speaker 3: Is it's bad?

2712
02:09:42,920 --> 02:09:44,319
Speaker 6: It turns out bad for you? I'm like, well, you

2713
02:09:44,399 --> 02:09:47,439
defended him. You know, it's like your issue. So uh yeah,

2714
02:09:47,520 --> 02:09:49,520
it was one of those things you just and I yeah,

2715
02:09:49,520 --> 02:09:51,279
you can watch it on YouTube. People still to this

2716
02:09:51,399 --> 02:09:53,039
day of the trial of the century for a great

2717
02:09:53,079 --> 02:09:56,159
athlete to have gone through that, uh and not so

2718
02:09:56,279 --> 02:09:58,439
great a person. I think you learned a lot about

2719
02:09:58,520 --> 02:10:00,640
him by watching that and refly a lot of the

2720
02:10:00,720 --> 02:10:02,960
information that has come out since the.

2721
02:10:03,000 --> 02:10:05,479
Speaker 1: Name of the book that deserves a while, untold stories

2722
02:10:05,520 --> 02:10:08,239
of legends and champions. They're wins and heartbreaks. Written by

2723
02:10:08,359 --> 02:10:10,239
Chris Myers, who will be on the call for Texans

2724
02:10:10,319 --> 02:10:12,720
Titans this Sunday on Fox. Hope we get you a

2725
02:10:12,760 --> 02:10:14,399
couple times next year. We want to do this again.

2726
02:10:14,439 --> 02:10:16,520
Thank you for the visit, mister Myers. We really appreciate it.

2727
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:19,560
Speaker 3: Well yeah, my pleasure. Thank you. I'll come on with

2728
02:10:19,640 --> 02:10:21,319
you anytime. You take care and enjoy the game.

2729
02:10:21,359 --> 02:10:23,479
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Chris Myers, Fox Sports with us

2730
02:10:23,520 --> 02:10:27,920
here on the call, and again I invite you again.

2731
02:10:28,079 --> 02:10:31,079
Up Close was a magazine formatted show. It was thirty minutes.

2732
02:10:31,119 --> 02:10:33,800
It was interview. It was usually one interview and Roy

2733
02:10:33,880 --> 02:10:34,960
Firestone was the original host.

2734
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:36,920
Speaker 2: For those of you that are all esp and ogs.

2735
02:10:37,279 --> 02:10:39,640
Speaker 1: Chris Myers did it for a while as well, and

2736
02:10:40,319 --> 02:10:42,600
I remember laying I may have been in my bed

2737
02:10:43,640 --> 02:10:45,560
and I want to make sure I get this right John,

2738
02:10:45,640 --> 02:10:47,159
because I don't want to screw this up. And I

2739
02:10:47,199 --> 02:10:52,520
should have actually asked Chris this. His phrasing of what

2740
02:10:52,760 --> 02:10:57,479
he said was unbelievable. It was let me so I

2741
02:10:57,560 --> 02:10:58,279
can find it here.

2742
02:10:58,640 --> 02:11:00,239
Speaker 2: Well, I'm young, I didn't know any of this, and

2743
02:11:00,439 --> 02:11:02,720
this is like, I'm definitely gonna watching, like looking at

2744
02:11:02,760 --> 02:11:03,439
this up after the show.

2745
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:06,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna see. I think that. Oh God, I

2746
02:11:06,399 --> 02:11:08,239
feel stupid. I didn't ask the question. I think he's like,

2747
02:11:08,520 --> 02:11:11,319
so do you think oh, I want to think of

2748
02:11:11,399 --> 02:11:14,159
The question was like do you think you're capable of

2749
02:11:14,239 --> 02:11:16,319
being a murder or something? It was something like paraphrasing

2750
02:11:16,439 --> 02:11:19,239
like that. Yeah, it was unbelievable. I'll get the exact

2751
02:11:19,319 --> 02:11:21,279
question when we come back. But Chris was awesome and

2752
02:11:21,319 --> 02:11:23,520
we appreciate him coming on the show. One sixteen on

2753
02:11:23,560 --> 02:11:25,319
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross we I Believe it

2754
02:11:25,359 --> 02:11:27,359
or Not? Today coming up at one fifty Alive or

2755
02:11:27,439 --> 02:11:31,640
dead famous television characters? Are they really still alive in

2756
02:11:31,720 --> 02:11:34,439
real life? One sixteen on seven ninety. I went back

2757
02:11:34,560 --> 02:11:36,239
John going to see a little clip of that he

2758
02:11:36,720 --> 02:11:39,479
had OJ in nineteen ninety eighties's are you capable of murder?

2759
02:11:40,479 --> 02:11:43,760
Speaker 2: I mean, damn wait, he went right for the jugular.

2760
02:11:47,960 --> 02:11:49,439
He went right for the old jugular.

2761
02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:52,119
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2762
02:11:52,319 --> 02:11:54,079
Speaker 1: I wish I could. I could have talked to Chris

2763
02:11:54,199 --> 02:11:56,880
for hours, because there's just so much. I mean, he's

2764
02:11:56,920 --> 02:12:01,000
covered so much, from NASCAR to uh Muhammad Ali as

2765
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:03,680
a teenager to doing all the Super Bowls and work,

2766
02:12:03,760 --> 02:12:05,840
you know, and just he's been in all the big sights,

2767
02:12:05,920 --> 02:12:07,159
plus hosting that interview show.

2768
02:12:07,800 --> 02:12:09,079
Speaker 2: I'm curious what he would have been.

2769
02:12:09,119 --> 02:12:11,319
Speaker 1: And again I only had about I needed to get

2770
02:12:11,359 --> 02:12:17,520
out by thirteen or fourteen past the hour. There has

2771
02:12:17,640 --> 02:12:27,359
been some criticism of Fox broadcaster broadcasters and Pat McAfee

2772
02:12:27,520 --> 02:12:30,640
because they interviewed Pat mcaveee interviewed to Donald Trump yesterday

2773
02:12:30,720 --> 02:12:34,520
during the Veterans Day Show. Oh that's right, And so

2774
02:12:34,600 --> 02:12:38,199
there's been some blowback on that because Pat has said

2775
02:12:38,640 --> 02:12:44,079
that he doesn't do politics on his show. And as

2776
02:12:44,159 --> 02:12:48,680
I've said this before, because again I want everybody, regardless

2777
02:12:48,680 --> 02:12:50,239
of your political affiliation.

2778
02:12:49,920 --> 02:12:50,760
Speaker 2: To listen to my show.

2779
02:12:51,960 --> 02:12:54,279
Speaker 1: I don't need fifty percent of the audience mad at

2780
02:12:54,319 --> 02:12:55,680
me for any sort of political slant.

2781
02:12:55,720 --> 02:12:56,800
Speaker 2: I have to it, don't.

2782
02:12:56,840 --> 02:12:59,399
Speaker 1: I don't deal much into politics, and we'll continue how

2783
02:12:59,439 --> 02:13:04,439
to do so. But if the President is available to

2784
02:13:04,520 --> 02:13:08,960
talk to me. And he was on the Fox broadcast

2785
02:13:09,039 --> 02:13:11,279
of the Detroit Washington football game because he went and

2786
02:13:11,359 --> 02:13:15,159
saw the game of the Commander's game and Kenny Albert

2787
02:13:15,199 --> 02:13:19,199
and Jonathan Villmo were calling the game. They didn't talk

2788
02:13:19,239 --> 02:13:23,960
anything about politics. They talked about Donald Trump playing football.

2789
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:27,119
They talked about Jonathan Villma's career. I didn't see the

2790
02:13:27,159 --> 02:13:28,800
whole thing, but I saw a pretty good clip of it,

2791
02:13:28,920 --> 02:13:32,000
and there was nothing involving anything in terms of the

2792
02:13:32,119 --> 02:13:38,199
economy or the federal government shutdown. Here's my take on it.

2793
02:13:38,600 --> 02:13:40,720
And I would say this, and I've said this before

2794
02:13:40,800 --> 02:13:43,399
of a variety of things, if I got invited to

2795
02:13:43,439 --> 02:13:45,920
the White House, if it was a Democrat or Republican

2796
02:13:46,760 --> 02:13:50,880
was in office, I would go in a heartbeat. It

2797
02:13:50,960 --> 02:13:53,560
wouldn't matter if I voted for the person or I

2798
02:13:53,680 --> 02:13:58,560
despise the person. I just to go into the White

2799
02:13:58,600 --> 02:14:00,319
House to be in front of the pre I mean,

2800
02:14:00,359 --> 02:14:02,479
the leader of the free world. I'd be honored by it.

2801
02:14:02,680 --> 02:14:04,520
And I would do it in a heartbeat, the same

2802
02:14:04,640 --> 02:14:06,680
that I would do if the President want to come

2803
02:14:06,720 --> 02:14:10,000
on this radio show. I don't know how to intelligently

2804
02:14:10,079 --> 02:14:12,680
and this is being just guyleful trying to honest with you.

2805
02:14:13,159 --> 02:14:15,279
I don't have to intelligently talk to a president, to

2806
02:14:15,319 --> 02:14:21,039
anybody about politics, But if I get if if Barack

2807
02:14:21,079 --> 02:14:23,439
Obama walked in here or Joe Biden walked in here today,

2808
02:14:23,600 --> 02:14:28,479
or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Donald Trump, I'd

2809
02:14:28,520 --> 02:14:31,640
want to I'd want to soften the interview up by

2810
02:14:31,720 --> 02:14:34,920
just talking about sports, because that's what I'm a support hoast.

2811
02:14:35,119 --> 02:14:36,880
Now if I was doing political talking would be a

2812
02:14:36,880 --> 02:14:40,680
different situation, So uh, I don't I'm not look. I

2813
02:14:40,680 --> 02:14:43,479
don't like McAfee person. I think he's bombastic and crazy,

2814
02:14:43,560 --> 02:14:47,000
but that's everybody's own individual style. But if he gets

2815
02:14:47,039 --> 02:14:49,880
an opportunity to get the president on, I don't crush

2816
02:14:49,960 --> 02:14:52,039
him for that. I don't crush the Fox broadcasters who

2817
02:14:52,039 --> 02:14:54,159
are trying to call a football game trying to keep

2818
02:14:54,159 --> 02:14:56,319
it as light hard as possible. That is my take

2819
02:14:56,359 --> 02:14:59,439
on things, because the most important thing is I never

2820
02:14:59,520 --> 02:15:02,800
want politics get in the way of this show, which

2821
02:15:02,880 --> 02:15:06,159
is lighthearted sports conversation because we got enough a heavy

2822
02:15:06,199 --> 02:15:08,520
hearted political talk out there for many other people that

2823
02:15:08,640 --> 02:15:09,600
other people can worry.

2824
02:15:09,399 --> 02:15:09,880
Speaker 2: About, not me.

2825
02:15:10,560 --> 02:15:13,279
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

2826
02:15:13,319 --> 02:15:15,880
one three two one two five seven ninety I know

2827
02:15:15,960 --> 02:15:19,560
that again, that that OJ thing. If I got an

2828
02:15:19,560 --> 02:15:22,039
opportunity nineteen ninety eight to interview Joe O. J. Simpson,

2829
02:15:24,600 --> 02:15:26,880
and there were parameters that were sett and he said,

2830
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:28,359
can't talk about the kids. What else did he say

2831
02:15:28,359 --> 02:15:29,960
he couldn't talk about He couldn't talk about the kids,

2832
02:15:29,960 --> 02:15:31,359
and couldn't talk about something else.

2833
02:15:31,640 --> 02:15:33,439
Speaker 2: He couldn't talk about the kids, and he couldn't talk

2834
02:15:33,439 --> 02:15:35,800
about It was just the kids.

2835
02:15:35,800 --> 02:15:37,319
Speaker 1: I think ODI said you can't talk about the kids,

2836
02:15:37,560 --> 02:15:41,399
which is fair, Yeah, or family, maybe family in general.

2837
02:15:41,399 --> 02:15:42,720
I don't know what it was, but it was a

2838
02:15:42,760 --> 02:15:44,880
great interview. And I remember at the time sitting up

2839
02:15:44,880 --> 02:15:46,880
in my bed or wherever I was on a couch, going,

2840
02:15:46,960 --> 02:15:50,000
oh my god, Chris Myers is going right at him,

2841
02:15:50,760 --> 02:15:52,800
because nobody wanted to do that, because everybody was kind

2842
02:15:52,840 --> 02:15:56,079
of fighting for that first exclusive interview, and people were like, well,

2843
02:15:56,359 --> 02:15:58,760
is Oja're gonna put parameters on these journalists that you

2844
02:15:58,800 --> 02:16:00,720
can't ask about this can't say things about this and

2845
02:16:01,960 --> 02:16:03,720
Chris went in there, and I think that OJ was

2846
02:16:03,760 --> 02:16:05,680
hoping for one kind of interview and definitely got a

2847
02:16:05,680 --> 02:16:09,319
different one and helped Chris cement his legacy is one

2848
02:16:09,319 --> 02:16:11,840
of the great broadcasters of all time. Let's go to

2849
02:16:11,920 --> 02:16:14,000
Brian at one twenty seven of The Matt Thomas Show

2850
02:16:14,039 --> 02:16:16,239
with Ross Brian, good morning, You're gonna afternoon to you.

2851
02:16:17,760 --> 02:16:20,079
Speaker 11: Hey after an MT Yeah, real quick?

2852
02:16:20,239 --> 02:16:21,279
Speaker 14: I mean, that would be awesome.

2853
02:16:21,359 --> 02:16:22,359
Speaker 9: And I had a chance.

2854
02:16:22,439 --> 02:16:25,840
Speaker 11: I was very fortunate back in my old job, when

2855
02:16:25,880 --> 02:16:27,560
I was still working in sports, I had a chance

2856
02:16:27,640 --> 02:16:30,199
to meet Bush forty one, and absolutely, you know, he'd

2857
02:16:30,239 --> 02:16:33,000
already been long since out of the presidency. But yeah,

2858
02:16:33,000 --> 02:16:33,600
I agree with you.

2859
02:16:33,879 --> 02:16:34,799
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are.

2860
02:16:35,120 --> 02:16:37,760
Speaker 11: Do you have a chance to meet a former president

2861
02:16:37,879 --> 02:16:42,000
current Brad You're gonna take that, and you should. There's

2862
02:16:42,000 --> 02:16:43,879
still a way to do respectfully. And he was nice

2863
02:16:43,879 --> 02:16:46,000
to take a picture and send it back to me

2864
02:16:46,079 --> 02:16:48,040
autographed and all that, and it's still one of my

2865
02:16:48,559 --> 02:16:52,719
you know, treasure possessions that I have to my office

2866
02:16:53,520 --> 02:16:54,360
the sea every day.

2867
02:16:54,440 --> 02:16:55,920
Speaker 3: But so it was really cool.

2868
02:16:56,920 --> 02:16:58,879
Speaker 11: I'm sure he could go on. You could have an

2869
02:16:59,040 --> 02:17:01,479
entire hour segment with them, But real quick on the

2870
02:17:01,760 --> 02:17:05,440
I know you got the astrosk. They're talking work stoppage

2871
02:17:05,520 --> 02:17:09,239
coming up. Unfortunately after this season, do we know fully

2872
02:17:09,319 --> 02:17:11,520
what it's about. Is it about the owners winning a

2873
02:17:11,600 --> 02:17:15,120
hard salary cap? Or is it about and then do

2874
02:17:15,200 --> 02:17:17,719
you think that affects the way these owners may be

2875
02:17:17,920 --> 02:17:21,639
spend this offseason knowing that is most likely coming where

2876
02:17:21,639 --> 02:17:23,559
they're going to say, hey, I'm not going to give

2877
02:17:23,600 --> 02:17:25,520
you a ten year deal if we could possibly miss

2878
02:17:25,520 --> 02:17:28,079
an entire year or does that would that transfer over

2879
02:17:28,120 --> 02:17:28,760
to the next.

2880
02:17:28,680 --> 02:17:30,000
Speaker 3: Year of play?

2881
02:17:30,399 --> 02:17:34,360
Speaker 11: So if they missed twenty six or twenty seven for whatever,

2882
02:17:34,840 --> 02:17:37,959
does it go twenty six, twenty eight through whatever, if

2883
02:17:38,000 --> 02:17:40,200
they give somebody a ten year deal or is that

2884
02:17:40,360 --> 02:17:43,040
just a year of missed revenue? Is how all the

2885
02:17:43,559 --> 02:17:46,399
reality is what this strike is about?

2886
02:17:46,600 --> 02:17:49,520
Speaker 1: Well, the CBA ends December of twenty six.

2887
02:17:49,639 --> 02:17:52,479
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, So it's more a CBA fight.

2888
02:17:52,680 --> 02:17:55,760
Speaker 1: It's more of a CBA fight. And the word is

2889
02:17:55,879 --> 02:17:59,479
and again, you can't speak for thirty mega billionaires, okay,

2890
02:17:59,600 --> 02:18:02,559
so's I can only speak to what an even publicly say.

2891
02:18:03,079 --> 02:18:06,639
The reality is they want a salary cap and the

2892
02:18:06,760 --> 02:18:09,239
question is going to be. The difference is is that

2893
02:18:09,479 --> 02:18:12,360
in the NFL there is a lot of copathetic relationships

2894
02:18:12,399 --> 02:18:15,479
because they've only had it that way. The NBA, they

2895
02:18:15,559 --> 02:18:18,479
get along because it gives other teams just as much

2896
02:18:18,479 --> 02:18:21,200
an opportunity to live in Sacramento to be a champion

2897
02:18:21,239 --> 02:18:23,079
as it would be if they were in New York

2898
02:18:23,159 --> 02:18:25,879
City or Los Angeles. Major League Baseball's never had that.

2899
02:18:26,040 --> 02:18:28,360
There's always been the haves and the have nots. The LA's,

2900
02:18:28,399 --> 02:18:32,040
the New York's, the Chicagos have always outspent and out

2901
02:18:32,200 --> 02:18:36,440
generate revenue more than anybody than the Kansas Cities, the Cleveland's,

2902
02:18:36,479 --> 02:18:40,760
the Miami's, the smaller market the Milwaukee's. So the first

2903
02:18:40,840 --> 02:18:44,040
argument is going to be will these thirty and Major

2904
02:18:44,120 --> 02:18:48,079
League Baseball owners get along with each other enough to

2905
02:18:48,239 --> 02:18:51,159
go to the table collectively as one or are they

2906
02:18:51,239 --> 02:18:54,280
going to have so many different agendas out there that

2907
02:18:54,639 --> 02:18:57,799
it's going to create some disharmony amongst themselves before they

2908
02:18:57,879 --> 02:18:59,879
even figure out how they're going to combat going against

2909
02:18:59,920 --> 02:19:00,959
the players Association.

2910
02:19:02,680 --> 02:19:04,239
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, I got you, and you had a and

2911
02:19:04,360 --> 02:19:05,840
real quick Matt, and I know you got to get

2912
02:19:05,879 --> 02:19:08,840
a heart break coming. But you were talking earlier on

2913
02:19:08,879 --> 02:19:11,600
the show about the ridiculous buyouts, And then I heard

2914
02:19:11,719 --> 02:19:14,319
Mac Brown on a podcast. I saw a clip of

2915
02:19:14,399 --> 02:19:16,360
it somewhere. I don't remember who it was, but he

2916
02:19:16,520 --> 02:19:19,120
was talking about how he thinks in the next five years,

2917
02:19:19,520 --> 02:19:23,440
you start seeing much higher AAV contracts for head coaches.

2918
02:19:23,479 --> 02:19:27,159
For his you know, Steve Starkesian may make eighteen million dollars,

2919
02:19:27,440 --> 02:19:31,000
but his buyout will be essentially nothing. That way, it's like, Okay,

2920
02:19:31,079 --> 02:19:33,360
you're off the hook for one year, but I'm not

2921
02:19:33,440 --> 02:19:36,639
going to pay you these ridiculous buyouts anymore. Yeah, i

2922
02:19:36,719 --> 02:19:39,479
may be out eighteen nineteen million dollars for one year

2923
02:19:39,959 --> 02:19:41,959
as a coach, but then I'm not on the hook

2924
02:19:42,040 --> 02:19:45,840
for another fifty three for five more years. So I

2925
02:19:45,920 --> 02:19:47,680
thought that was kind of interesting. I was like, yeah,

2926
02:19:47,719 --> 02:19:50,440
I can totally see that happening in the next couple

2927
02:19:50,479 --> 02:19:54,280
of years of coaches getting larger contracts up front. But

2928
02:19:54,399 --> 02:19:57,399
that way than the universities and the boosters can get

2929
02:19:57,440 --> 02:19:59,000
off the hook.

2930
02:19:58,799 --> 02:20:01,760
Speaker 2: A lot faster. So good show, Thank you very much,

2931
02:20:02,120 --> 02:20:02,680
Thanks Brian.

2932
02:20:02,879 --> 02:20:05,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure LSU would love that kind of future

2933
02:20:05,079 --> 02:20:07,319
deal because they're right now in the hook for fifty

2934
02:20:07,319 --> 02:20:10,079
three million dollars for Brian Kelly one thirty one of

2935
02:20:10,120 --> 02:20:11,799
the Matt Thomas Show. We've Got Believe It or Not

2936
02:20:11,879 --> 02:20:13,680
coming up in twenty minutes. Another segment for you and

2937
02:20:13,719 --> 02:20:15,760
I to get into things. Seven one three two one

2938
02:20:15,840 --> 02:20:19,959
two five seven. Nintie Rockets tonight against the Wizards. Seven

2939
02:20:20,000 --> 02:20:22,479
o'clock on our sister station, Katier Reach quick update on

2940
02:20:22,520 --> 02:20:24,959
the Texans next plus your calls seven one three two

2941
02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:35,040
one two five seven. Natti real quick for going back

2942
02:20:35,040 --> 02:20:38,040
on the phones. This situation in Dallas. You know they

2943
02:20:38,120 --> 02:20:43,719
fired Nico Harrison a couple of days ago. Apparently according

2944
02:20:43,760 --> 02:20:44,840
to The Athletic.

2945
02:20:44,520 --> 02:20:45,040
Speaker 2: You ready for this.

2946
02:20:45,200 --> 02:20:48,639
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison reportedly urged Anthony Davis to return early from

2947
02:20:48,719 --> 02:20:53,520
his calf injury, despite the Mavericks' medical staff warning that

2948
02:20:53,600 --> 02:20:55,760
there was a chance he could tear his achilles if

2949
02:20:55,760 --> 02:21:01,719
he came back too soon. Quote. Monday's loss of the

2950
02:21:01,760 --> 02:21:04,440
Bucks marked the sixth straight game Davis has missed with

2951
02:21:04,479 --> 02:21:07,760
a left calf stream. Multiple league sources said Davis had

2952
02:21:07,840 --> 02:21:09,600
tried to convince the Mavericks to let him return to

2953
02:21:09,639 --> 02:21:12,239
the court. Harrison urged him to return, but the team's

2954
02:21:12,280 --> 02:21:15,239
medical staff forbade it, citing the potential for a torn

2955
02:21:15,280 --> 02:21:17,120
achilles if Davis returns too soon.

2956
02:21:21,840 --> 02:21:25,520
Speaker 2: I mean, he wasn't that paying attention to the last

2957
02:21:25,520 --> 02:21:26,360
playoffs with all those.

2958
02:21:27,079 --> 02:21:29,159
Speaker 1: Is he not paid attention to Anthony Davis in his life?

2959
02:21:29,879 --> 02:21:31,799
I mean, seriously, what are you doing?

2960
02:21:33,600 --> 02:21:33,799
Speaker 2: God?

2961
02:21:33,879 --> 02:21:39,559
Speaker 1: How stupid is that? Well, he's out of work. Imagine something,

2962
02:21:39,600 --> 02:21:42,000
Imagine being so bad at your job, making one of

2963
02:21:42,040 --> 02:21:46,200
the worst trades in NBA history. He'll never be in

2964
02:21:46,280 --> 02:21:49,799
the front office of a team ever. Again, this is

2965
02:21:49,840 --> 02:21:52,520
a FATA company now, Nico Harrison as a shoe background

2966
02:21:52,559 --> 02:21:56,760
I believe with one of the shoe manufacturers, so he

2967
02:21:56,799 --> 02:21:58,440
can go back into that. Plus he's probably making a

2968
02:21:58,479 --> 02:22:00,239
lot of money because hes got a contract that he had. Yeah,

2969
02:22:00,280 --> 02:22:02,399
I mean you fired you could. When you sign a

2970
02:22:02,440 --> 02:22:05,239
country be a GM, it's usually guaranteed, and you don't.

2971
02:22:06,239 --> 02:22:08,000
You're supposed to do a good job as a general manager.

2972
02:22:08,040 --> 02:22:09,920
If you don't, they can let you go, tell you

2973
02:22:09,959 --> 02:22:14,879
to go away, and pay you off. God, it's crazy. Uh,

2974
02:22:15,040 --> 02:22:16,520
Dave was with you, I said one thirty eight on

2975
02:22:16,520 --> 02:22:18,159
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Dave, thank you for

2976
02:22:18,200 --> 02:22:18,520
holding in.

2977
02:22:18,559 --> 02:22:21,959
Speaker 13: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Matt, Hey, I was just listening

2978
02:22:22,000 --> 02:22:24,280
to you in your comments about Donald Trump appearing on

2979
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:26,360
Pat McAfee show, and now you stay out of that

2980
02:22:26,440 --> 02:22:28,799
for the most part. And you know, I'm going to

2981
02:22:28,840 --> 02:22:30,799
show my age here. I've been listening to Houston sports

2982
02:22:30,879 --> 02:22:34,799
talk radio for decades now, and I remember a young

2983
02:22:34,879 --> 02:22:39,639
Matt Thomas on KSV seven hundred with one Dan Patrick, Oh,

2984
02:22:39,920 --> 02:22:42,680
our lieutenant governor, maybe our future governor, who knows a

2985
02:22:42,719 --> 02:22:46,399
lot of people suggest that he might be an interesting

2986
02:22:46,520 --> 02:22:48,920
interview and just for sports topics. You know, you could

2987
02:22:48,920 --> 02:22:52,159
talk to him about his take on nil and all,

2988
02:22:52,239 --> 02:22:54,760
what's going on there, maybe what he thinks about these

2989
02:22:55,239 --> 02:22:58,280
state universities being on the hook for fifty and seventy

2990
02:22:58,319 --> 02:23:02,079
million dollars with these coaches. Dan got started talk about

2991
02:23:02,239 --> 02:23:05,120
like public financing of stadiums, if you recall, that's how

2992
02:23:05,159 --> 02:23:08,440
we kind of crossed over that and property taxes into

2993
02:23:08,959 --> 02:23:11,799
the political arena. But you know, you go back with him.

2994
02:23:11,920 --> 02:23:15,200
I bet you know, on your old connections and friendship,

2995
02:23:15,239 --> 02:23:16,840
you could probably get him to come on air and

2996
02:23:16,959 --> 02:23:19,760
it would be an interesting radio if you got thirty

2997
02:23:19,799 --> 02:23:21,360
minutes of Dan and the right topics.

2998
02:23:21,760 --> 02:23:24,479
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's funny, it is. And again with

2999
02:23:24,600 --> 02:23:27,239
the problem is when you're doing an elected Canada. There

3000
02:23:27,239 --> 02:23:29,879
are election rules that go with it. And now if

3001
02:23:29,920 --> 02:23:31,799
he wasn't up for election, that wouldn't I wouldn't have

3002
02:23:31,840 --> 02:23:34,159
to give equal time. I've just, Dave, I've made the

3003
02:23:34,319 --> 02:23:37,639
editorial decision not to do that in my life. Look,

3004
02:23:37,719 --> 02:23:40,360
the president would be a special situation or former president,

3005
02:23:40,440 --> 02:23:43,600
but short of that, I just don't have any interest

3006
02:23:43,639 --> 02:23:46,719
in it because I'm I'm a weani. When it comes

3007
02:23:46,760 --> 02:23:50,079
to that, I want everybody humanly possible to listen. And

3008
02:23:50,360 --> 02:23:52,079
I swear if I did the if I brought Dan

3009
02:23:52,120 --> 02:23:53,559
in studio or had him on the phone to talk

3010
02:23:53,600 --> 02:23:56,479
about that, I'd get probably fifteen questions about why did

3011
02:23:56,600 --> 02:23:59,079
you not talked about registricting or why did you not

3012
02:23:59,239 --> 02:24:02,719
talk about gambling. It's it's unfortunately, David. I'm just being

3013
02:24:02,760 --> 02:24:05,079
peer and honest with you. It's a no win situation

3014
02:24:05,159 --> 02:24:07,000
because people, some people would say that was a great

3015
02:24:07,040 --> 02:24:09,280
interview and or you didn't do this because you're afraid

3016
02:24:09,280 --> 02:24:12,040
to do this, and so I just I'm gonna say

3017
02:24:12,399 --> 02:24:14,840
it's never gonna happen. It's just not okay.

3018
02:24:15,280 --> 02:24:17,319
Speaker 13: All right, Hey, listen, great interview with Chris Meyer.

3019
02:24:17,440 --> 02:24:18,639
Speaker 2: Oh I loved him he's good.

3020
02:24:18,639 --> 02:24:20,000
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the phone call, David.

3021
02:24:20,000 --> 02:24:20,879
Speaker 2: I appreciate the suggestion.

3022
02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:24,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because Dan, for those of you that

3023
02:24:24,280 --> 02:24:26,680
don't know our good Lieutenant governor, I worked for Dan

3024
02:24:26,879 --> 02:24:30,760
for nine years when he was running a KSV. He

3025
02:24:30,799 --> 02:24:33,239
still owns it, but does not have an active participation

3026
02:24:33,360 --> 02:24:37,000
in the company because he's busy, you know, being the

3027
02:24:37,079 --> 02:24:41,639
second most important influential politician in our state. But I,

3028
02:24:41,959 --> 02:24:45,040
you know, I give him a lot of my credit

3029
02:24:45,879 --> 02:24:49,000
for getting into sports because he allowed me to work

3030
02:24:49,000 --> 02:24:53,280
at the radio station. I was his producer, and let

3031
02:24:53,360 --> 02:24:54,920
me talk on the air, and let me have my

3032
02:24:55,000 --> 02:24:56,959
own show, and got me to do some play by

3033
02:24:56,959 --> 02:24:58,360
a play of high school and let me do some

3034
02:24:58,440 --> 02:25:02,399
college stuff down the road. But he got into politics

3035
02:25:02,479 --> 02:25:05,600
so much that it was not the Dan Patrick Sports

3036
02:25:05,600 --> 02:25:07,920
Show anymore. It was the Dan Patrick Politics Show. And

3037
02:25:08,040 --> 02:25:10,079
so he eventually said to me, he said, look, you're

3038
02:25:10,120 --> 02:25:12,959
doing the rockets, Pa. Now you're in sports. You got

3039
02:25:12,959 --> 02:25:14,680
a little bit of a reputation, you got a little

3040
02:25:14,680 --> 02:25:16,440
bit of a following. And look I was only twenty three,

3041
02:25:16,479 --> 02:25:18,559
twenty four years old at the time, and he's like,

3042
02:25:18,879 --> 02:25:21,680
you know, here's your giants and so my partner at

3043
02:25:21,719 --> 02:25:23,360
the time was Darren Jones, and we did a show

3044
02:25:23,399 --> 02:25:24,840
for a while and I had Jim cos Moore and

3045
02:25:24,840 --> 02:25:27,159
some other people down the road before ultimately working with

3046
02:25:27,239 --> 02:25:30,239
John Radio. I'm going KPRC. But if it wasn't for

3047
02:25:30,399 --> 02:25:35,000
him getting into politics, I'm probably not working at that

3048
02:25:35,159 --> 02:25:39,760
radio station doing sports as quickly as I did. You know,

3049
02:25:39,879 --> 02:25:41,840
most guys have to go out of market, have to

3050
02:25:41,920 --> 02:25:45,559
go to a small city, you know, Lubbock or Oklahoma

3051
02:25:45,600 --> 02:25:48,040
City or tulsaen and kind of you know, get your

3052
02:25:48,280 --> 02:25:50,319
wits about you when it comes to learning how to

3053
02:25:50,360 --> 02:25:52,639
do sports talk. I was able to do it in Houston, Texas.

3054
02:25:52,680 --> 02:25:55,920
I was very happy about that. So yeah, so thanks

3055
02:25:55,959 --> 02:26:00,639
to Dan's political aspirations, it it pushed my sports aspirations

3056
02:26:00,639 --> 02:26:02,520
and I've kind of stayed in my own lene on that.

3057
02:26:03,040 --> 02:26:05,360
Do I have political beliefs, Of course I do. I mean, no,

3058
02:26:05,520 --> 02:26:07,799
nobody can say they're one hundred percent eight political, but

3059
02:26:07,959 --> 02:26:10,639
I will one hundred percent continue to choose to use

3060
02:26:10,680 --> 02:26:14,799
those privately and uh, because you know, I like having

3061
02:26:14,840 --> 02:26:17,000
everybody listen to the show, and I try to have

3062
02:26:17,120 --> 02:26:20,479
a little bit of a non world of politics on

3063
02:26:20,520 --> 02:26:22,719
at least one radio show. But like I said, if

3064
02:26:22,719 --> 02:26:25,520
a president wants to come on the show and just

3065
02:26:25,600 --> 02:26:27,399
talk about sports or life and get away from his

3066
02:26:28,440 --> 02:26:30,799
hassles of trying to run the free world, I'm okay

3067
02:26:30,840 --> 02:26:32,440
with it. All right, let's pay believe it or not.

3068
02:26:32,559 --> 02:26:35,319
One forty two is the time is as a OG

3069
02:26:35,600 --> 02:26:37,639
edition of the Alive or Dead. I'm gonna give you

3070
02:26:37,760 --> 02:26:41,879
famous television characters, groups of them, and you have to

3071
02:26:41,959 --> 02:26:44,000
tell me if all of them are alive or all

3072
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:47,319
of them are dead. And we're playing for Jack Johnson

3073
02:26:47,360 --> 02:26:49,319
tickets with that. Next it's one forty two if you

3074
02:26:49,360 --> 02:26:52,239
want to play seven one three two one two five

3075
02:26:52,360 --> 02:26:55,120
seven ninety seven one three two, one two five.

3076
02:26:55,040 --> 02:27:02,360
Speaker 2: Seven ninety eight on Sports Talk seven ninety all right,

3077
02:27:02,639 --> 02:27:04,760
so you listen to the you talk to the people, Jonathan.

3078
02:27:04,760 --> 02:27:07,920
Speaker 1: Are these people gonna know these television iconic characters? Are

3079
02:27:08,000 --> 02:27:10,280
they going to Are they just prize horse?

3080
02:27:11,239 --> 02:27:12,159
Speaker 7: M oh?

3081
02:27:12,200 --> 02:27:13,760
Speaker 2: I know one, I know, Okay, so they might. They're

3082
02:27:13,760 --> 02:27:17,840
gonna know at least two for sure. Okay, A little nervous.

3083
02:27:19,520 --> 02:27:21,120
I don't know what any of these are. Oh I know, okay,

3084
02:27:21,200 --> 02:27:21,639
I know three?

3085
02:27:21,680 --> 02:27:23,799
Speaker 1: All right, So I mean the people that are called

3086
02:27:23,840 --> 02:27:26,079
in I mean, are they like twenty three year olds

3087
02:27:26,159 --> 02:27:26,879
or are they a little older?

3088
02:27:27,000 --> 02:27:29,680
Speaker 2: They a little older? I think doesn't sound kind of young.

3089
02:27:29,760 --> 02:27:32,879
We know Roger, Yeah, we know Roger Rogers Jason sound

3090
02:27:32,920 --> 02:27:35,520
pretty young. Okay, so they're gonna be just flat out guessing.

3091
02:27:35,680 --> 02:27:37,559
That's a great thought about Believe or Not. Even if

3092
02:27:37,559 --> 02:27:38,920
you have no idea what the topic is, you get

3093
02:27:38,959 --> 02:27:43,920
a fifty fifty chance. Yeah, I mean, I mean I

3094
02:27:43,959 --> 02:27:46,399
could say, uh, we could do it. Is this a

3095
02:27:46,520 --> 02:27:49,040
named asteroid or not? You know what I mean, you would,

3096
02:27:49,079 --> 02:27:49,559
we would know.

3097
02:27:51,239 --> 02:27:53,840
Speaker 1: I just didn't realize there was such huge affinity for

3098
02:27:54,079 --> 02:27:58,159
Jack Johnson tickets. Yeah, I guess full cause a full up. Mmm,

3099
02:27:59,040 --> 02:28:01,120
all right tomorrow and show. I just don't get it.

3100
02:28:02,319 --> 02:28:05,520
Maybe that's I just don't get it. Is people play

3101
02:28:05,600 --> 02:28:09,840
the game just to they hang up when they're done. Now,

3102
02:28:09,920 --> 02:28:13,200
we do have great families that uh we had friends

3103
02:28:13,239 --> 02:28:15,239
of ours I've met in Vegas that live in the

3104
02:28:15,440 --> 02:28:17,239
Beaumont area that listen to the show and their kids

3105
02:28:17,319 --> 02:28:20,079
play Believe It or Not every day. Really their grandkids

3106
02:28:20,120 --> 02:28:22,319
actually and now they're kids, their kids their grandkids play.

3107
02:28:22,600 --> 02:28:25,479
So it's such, you know, such a national phenomena that

3108
02:28:25,559 --> 02:28:29,360
you know, even even the youngsters are playing. Okay, what

3109
02:28:29,440 --> 02:28:31,360
else we got going on tomorrow? We got that, We've

3110
02:28:31,399 --> 02:28:33,360
got oh uh, you's gonna be on the show tomorrow

3111
02:28:33,399 --> 02:28:34,319
at noon. Looking forward to that.

3112
02:28:34,719 --> 02:28:36,719
Speaker 2: It'll be fun, uh because they're.

3113
02:28:36,520 --> 02:28:38,440
Speaker 1: Gonna beat the Washington Like there's no way they're losing

3114
02:28:38,440 --> 02:28:40,200
tonight to the worst team in the NBA. Right, you

3115
02:28:40,239 --> 02:28:41,600
know who I feel bad for? How do you feel?

3116
02:28:41,600 --> 02:28:42,799
You don't feel bad for Cam whitmore?

3117
02:28:42,840 --> 02:28:42,959
Speaker 8: Do you?

3118
02:28:43,079 --> 02:28:44,280
Speaker 1: I don't say it?

3119
02:28:46,239 --> 02:28:47,799
Speaker 2: Why do you feel bad for Kim winning? I just

3120
02:28:48,319 --> 02:28:50,639
I just I feel like this is a learning moment.

3121
02:28:50,680 --> 02:28:52,680
And it's like, because I've been that type of athlete

3122
02:28:52,680 --> 02:28:54,559
where you were cocky once you want this, this and that.

3123
02:28:54,799 --> 02:28:57,879
Speaker 1: And here's the problem. I like him as a player,

3124
02:28:59,319 --> 02:29:02,760
he just never learned. You know, he lost being a

3125
02:29:02,840 --> 02:29:06,520
lottery pick because he was just difficult to work with. Right, Yeah,

3126
02:29:07,440 --> 02:29:10,399
he lost chance to play rotation time for the Rockets

3127
02:29:10,440 --> 02:29:13,440
because you're ready for this. He's difficult to work with.

3128
02:29:14,559 --> 02:29:15,440
Speaker 2: This it's not coachable.

3129
02:29:16,200 --> 02:29:20,159
Speaker 1: And sometimes you're just not coachable. And you would think

3130
02:29:20,200 --> 02:29:23,760
if you had troubles in Philadelphia at Villanova, you had

3131
02:29:23,799 --> 02:29:26,399
troubles with Houston and it sounds like they're already certainly,

3132
02:29:26,440 --> 02:29:28,520
and he's gonna play tonight because it's the Wizards. Me

3133
02:29:28,639 --> 02:29:29,319
ho else are gonna do?

3134
02:29:30,079 --> 02:29:30,680
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

3135
02:29:30,719 --> 02:29:32,799
Speaker 1: I mean you would, wouldn't the light bulb turn on?

3136
02:29:33,639 --> 02:29:37,920
Because he physically can play the game of basketball. Now

3137
02:29:37,959 --> 02:29:39,719
can he defend? I don't know, because I never saw

3138
02:29:39,840 --> 02:29:42,399
much of it. But he can score.

3139
02:29:43,920 --> 02:29:45,760
Speaker 2: And even though this NBA you think is, you.

3140
02:29:45,760 --> 02:29:47,520
Speaker 1: Know, everybody score one hundred and forty points, it's still

3141
02:29:47,520 --> 02:29:48,879
hard to score points in the NBA. It's so much

3142
02:29:48,920 --> 02:29:51,639
hard to make jump shots. It's still hard to go

3143
02:29:51,719 --> 02:29:53,159
to the lane and get attacked and go to the

3144
02:29:53,200 --> 02:29:56,280
rim and score. Nobody says it's easy. There's why there's

3145
02:29:56,319 --> 02:29:59,079
only you know, four hundred and fifty people in the

3146
02:29:59,159 --> 02:30:03,120
world that do it. I just know he's he's had

3147
02:30:03,159 --> 02:30:04,920
some cut rough a couple months, especially how they're doing

3148
02:30:05,000 --> 02:30:07,799
right now. You went from a team that win fifty

3149
02:30:07,879 --> 02:30:12,840
two and thirty to a team that might win fifty

3150
02:30:12,879 --> 02:30:16,520
two games in four years. That's a hard mite too,

3151
02:30:16,680 --> 02:30:18,920
that's a hard one too. Five minutes left to go

3152
02:30:19,000 --> 02:30:19,639
in the show.

3153
02:30:19,559 --> 02:30:28,159
Speaker 2: What should we Do? We should play America's.

3154
02:30:26,879 --> 02:30:29,319
Speaker 1: Fastest growing sports radio game, show. We simply called it

3155
02:30:29,520 --> 02:30:31,360
be Believe It or Not. And here's how it works.

3156
02:30:31,760 --> 02:30:34,159
You call seven one three two one two five seven

3157
02:30:34,239 --> 02:30:36,440
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven

3158
02:30:36,520 --> 02:30:40,840
ninety Today's edition of Believing or Not is famous duos

3159
02:30:40,959 --> 02:30:45,559
trios groups. Are any of the members of these celebrity

3160
02:30:45,639 --> 02:30:50,040
groups still alive? If they are, you'll say this, believe it.

3161
02:30:50,280 --> 02:30:53,040
If they're not, you'll say this. Yeah, you get two

3162
02:30:53,040 --> 02:30:54,559
in a row. You win a pair of tickets to

3163
02:30:54,559 --> 02:30:58,239
see Jack Johnson live on the Surf Film Music Surfile

3164
02:30:58,360 --> 02:31:03,639
Music Yeah, Surfle Music twenty twenty six tour August twenty

3165
02:31:03,680 --> 02:31:06,559
eighth at the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets go on stale Friday

3166
02:31:06,559 --> 02:31:10,120
at ten o'clock at ticketmaster dot com. Let's play Believe

3167
02:31:10,159 --> 02:31:13,680
It or Not. Let's talk to Jason on seven on eighty. Jason,

3168
02:31:13,719 --> 02:31:15,360
what's your favorite Jack Johnson song?

3169
02:31:16,719 --> 02:31:18,440
Speaker 2: I've never even heard of him before, but I'll go

3170
02:31:18,559 --> 02:31:20,600
to it all right, Any.

3171
02:31:20,600 --> 02:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Of the main cruise ship crew on the Love Boat,

3172
02:31:25,280 --> 02:31:27,159
are they all alive? Believe it or not?

3173
02:31:30,399 --> 02:31:32,200
Speaker 2: Are they all alive? All alive?

3174
02:31:33,600 --> 02:31:38,239
Speaker 1: All live? Not? No, that's right, that's right, it's actually

3175
02:31:38,239 --> 02:31:40,680
wrote that wrong. He's correct. Captain Steubing is dead. Yeah,

3176
02:31:40,719 --> 02:31:45,520
so that's correct. Statement number two, Laverne and Shirley are

3177
02:31:45,559 --> 02:31:46,239
they both alive?

3178
02:31:46,319 --> 02:31:46,959
Speaker 2: Believe it or not?

3179
02:31:48,799 --> 02:31:51,920
Speaker 4: Oh? One of them just passed away.

3180
02:31:52,000 --> 02:31:56,959
Speaker 9: I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say alive when I'm still alive.

3181
02:31:57,120 --> 02:31:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm both dead. Sorry, Celia, you're not going to see

3182
02:31:59,360 --> 02:32:04,319
Jack Johnson. I know, I know, I'm sorry. One did recently.

3183
02:32:04,399 --> 02:32:06,959
Shirley died first. Laverne died about five or six years ago.

3184
02:32:07,520 --> 02:32:08,920
Speaker 2: Let's go to uh.

3185
02:32:09,360 --> 02:32:11,520
Speaker 1: Dylan on seven, Untydyllan, you're ready to play Believe it

3186
02:32:11,600 --> 02:32:11,680
or not?

3187
02:32:12,920 --> 02:32:13,799
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm ready to play.

3188
02:32:14,120 --> 02:32:17,360
Speaker 2: All of the kids on Family Ties are alive, believe

3189
02:32:17,360 --> 02:32:17,799
it or not.

3190
02:32:19,799 --> 02:32:20,280
Speaker 9: I believe it.

3191
02:32:20,399 --> 02:32:22,840
Speaker 1: That's correct, I believe it. Statement number two for the WAD.

3192
02:32:23,559 --> 02:32:27,239
All of the kids on Growing Pains are alive. Believe

3193
02:32:27,280 --> 02:32:27,680
it or not.

3194
02:32:31,639 --> 02:32:32,280
Speaker 9: I'm gonna say not.

3195
02:32:32,600 --> 02:32:33,440
Speaker 2: They're all live.

3196
02:32:33,639 --> 02:32:37,079
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, thank you, though I know y'all want to

3197
02:32:37,079 --> 02:32:40,399
go to Jack Johnson's so damn bad too. Robert on seven,

3198
02:32:40,479 --> 02:32:42,479
Nuntie Robert, what was your favorite part of today's tend

3199
02:32:42,479 --> 02:32:43,360
to two radio show?

3200
02:32:45,239 --> 02:32:45,840
Speaker 4: Believe it or not?

3201
02:32:46,079 --> 02:32:46,440
Speaker 3: All right?

3202
02:32:47,280 --> 02:32:48,760
Speaker 2: All of the Cosby.

3203
02:32:48,479 --> 02:32:51,200
Speaker 1: Kids on the Cosby Kids Show are alive believe it

3204
02:32:51,360 --> 02:32:51,559
or not.

3205
02:32:53,280 --> 02:32:53,319
Speaker 2: Not.

3206
02:32:53,719 --> 02:32:56,879
Speaker 1: That's right, MacMan john On wonn er die this year unfortunately.

3207
02:32:57,440 --> 02:33:00,799
Statement number two for the wind the parents of the

3208
02:33:00,879 --> 02:33:05,360
Cunningham kids on Happy Days. The parents are they both

3209
02:33:05,440 --> 02:33:09,600
alive Believe it or not? Uh, they're not.

3210
02:33:12,120 --> 02:33:12,719
Speaker 2: They're both dead.

3211
02:33:12,760 --> 02:33:16,280
Speaker 1: You say, yeah, they're actually Marion Ross Maryon that's not

3212
02:33:16,440 --> 02:33:21,479
that's a believe it sorry it Yeah, Marion Ross is alive.

3213
02:33:21,840 --> 02:33:23,680
Missus Cunningham, Missus c is alive.

3214
02:33:24,680 --> 02:33:25,040
Speaker 2: Let's go.

3215
02:33:25,239 --> 02:33:28,440
Speaker 1: She's ninety seven years old. Alex on seven. Are you

3216
02:33:28,479 --> 02:33:29,440
ready to play Believe it or not?

3217
02:33:31,319 --> 02:33:31,719
Speaker 3: Believe it?

3218
02:33:32,120 --> 02:33:36,639
Speaker 1: Both Sandford and Son are alive, believe it or not?

3219
02:33:38,639 --> 02:33:38,680
Speaker 2: Not?

3220
02:33:39,639 --> 02:33:45,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lamont is alive. Sorry, Oh god, you've my baud

3221
02:33:45,639 --> 02:33:48,559
one hundred Terry On seven ninety Terry, you're ready to

3222
02:33:48,559 --> 02:33:49,280
play Believe it or not?

3223
02:33:50,360 --> 02:33:50,799
Speaker 3: Believe it?

3224
02:33:51,360 --> 02:33:56,159
Speaker 1: Mister Rourke and Tattoo from Fantasy Island are both alive,

3225
02:33:56,479 --> 02:33:57,280
Believe it or not?

3226
02:33:58,559 --> 02:33:58,600
Speaker 3: Not.

3227
02:33:59,200 --> 02:33:59,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both dead.

3228
02:34:01,280 --> 02:34:01,680
Speaker 3: Here we go.

3229
02:34:01,879 --> 02:34:06,600
Speaker 1: This is your last chance. All the girls on the main.

3230
02:34:06,600 --> 02:34:10,200
Speaker 2: Cast of the Facts of Life are alive. Believe it

3231
02:34:10,639 --> 02:34:10,840
or not.

3232
02:34:12,159 --> 02:34:12,600
Speaker 3: Believe it.

3233
02:34:12,799 --> 02:34:13,319
Speaker 2: There you go.

3234
02:34:13,520 --> 02:34:19,440
Speaker 1: You're going to see Jack Johnson, Babe, I did throw

3235
02:34:19,520 --> 02:34:20,079
some twists in there.

3236
02:34:20,840 --> 02:34:22,799
Speaker 2: You know what, I have one more? Let me do

3237
02:34:22,879 --> 02:34:23,319
one more here?

3238
02:34:23,360 --> 02:34:26,079
Speaker 1: I got one more here, I do I forgot number eight.

3239
02:34:26,719 --> 02:34:29,399
Let's give away one more winner here, John on seven Hint,

3240
02:34:29,440 --> 02:34:30,479
you're ready to play Believe it or not?

3241
02:34:31,840 --> 02:34:34,280
Speaker 2: Believe it John, all the.

3242
02:34:34,399 --> 02:34:36,200
Speaker 1: Partridge family kids are alive.

3243
02:34:36,440 --> 02:34:37,399
Speaker 2: Believe it or not.

3244
02:34:39,000 --> 02:34:39,040
Speaker 6: Not.

3245
02:34:39,520 --> 02:34:40,920
Speaker 2: Nope, David Cassidy's dead.

3246
02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:41,239
Speaker 7: You win.

3247
02:34:41,440 --> 02:34:47,319
Speaker 1: Congratulations another winner. We're going to see Jack Johnson Baby

3248
02:34:47,319 --> 02:34:49,280
and if I knew any of his songs didn't even better.

3249
02:34:50,600 --> 02:34:52,799
All right, that's it for the radio show. Reminder if

3250
02:34:52,799 --> 02:34:54,799
you want to listen to me for Rockets basketball, and

3251
02:34:54,879 --> 02:34:56,760
thank you very much for that. The game is over

3252
02:34:56,879 --> 02:34:59,879
on kt right seven forty tonight six point thirty will

3253
02:34:59,879 --> 02:35:02,479
be the launch pad start time or the network pregame show.

3254
02:35:02,520 --> 02:35:04,319
Adam Clinton, I will have it for you or is

3255
02:35:04,360 --> 02:35:05,120
it Wax? I don't know who.

3256
02:35:05,159 --> 02:35:05,719
Speaker 3: Does that matter?

3257
02:35:06,079 --> 02:35:07,879
Speaker 1: Well, those two guys aren't coming to entertain the hell

3258
02:35:07,920 --> 02:35:11,399
out of you for the next four hours. It's the team.

3259
02:35:11,479 --> 02:35:13,840
I'll talk to you at seven for Rockets and Wizards

3260
02:35:13,879 --> 02:35:14,239
on seven